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altitonant

altitonant adjective: thundering loudly from high above.

Adjective

altitonant (comparative more altitonant, superlative most altitonant)

  1. Thundering loudly from high above.
    • And for that he singeth the psalmes in the church with such a jesticulus tone and altitonant voyce, viz.: squeaking like a gelded pigg — which doth not onlie interrupt the other voyces, but is altogether dissonant and disagreeing unto any musicall harmonie, and he hath bene requested by the...1874, Albany Law Journal - Volume 10, page 207
    • Hear, thou altitonant Jove, and Furies three.2014, Abraham Cowley (A. R. Waller), Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses, →ISBN, page 176

Noun

altitonant (plural altitonants)

  1. Something or someone that thunders loudly from on high.
    • At last the Altitonant displaz me hiz mayn poour ; with blaz of burning darts, flying too and fro, learns of starz corruscant, streamz and hail of firie sparkes, lightninges of wildfier a-water and lond.1597, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • The thunderstorm had stopped, the rain merely drizzled down and the aunt's boom had settled down from seemingly trying to equal the altitonant above even her considerable range by the time, a brief trip, the cabbie, his neat uniform sodden from sweating, drove up to the minicipal cemetery's...2012, William Penn, Love in the Time of Flowers, →ISBN, page 209

Forms of altitonant

Adjective
comparativemore altitonant
superlativemost altitonant
Noun
pluralaltitonants

Questions about altitonant

What does altitonant mean?
Altitonant means thundering loudly from high above.
What part of speech is altitonant?
Altitonant can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near altitonant in the dictionary

  1. altisonant
  2. altisonous
  3. altissimo
  4. altissimos
  5. altithermal
  6. altitonant
  7. altitonants
  8. altitude
  9. altitude sickness
  10. altitude-sick
  11. altitudes

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