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thunderhead

/ˈθʌndɚˌhɛd/

thunderhead noun: the top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.

thunderhead: the top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and...
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Noun

thunderhead (plural thunderheads)

  1. The top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.
    • Half the sky was checkered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear:1918, Willa Cather, chapter 19, in My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 158
    • The wisps of smoke above Léogane became dark and thick, and flowered into a towering thunderhead—an ominous cloud that drifted slowly to the westward and was constantly replenished at its base by uprushes of blacker smoke.1947, Kenneth Roberts, chapter 28, in Lydia Bailey, Garden City, NY: Doubleday

thunderhead meaning in Bengali

thunderhead in Bengali

কিউমুলোনিম্বাস মেঘের উপরের অংশ

Forms of thunderhead

pluralthunderheads

Origin of thunderhead

From thunder + head.

Words formed from thunderhead

Questions about thunderhead

What does thunderhead mean?
Thunderhead means the top portion of a cumulonimbus cloud, which tends to be flattened or fibery in appearance, and may be indicative of thunderstorm activity.
What is thunderhead in Bengali?
Thunderhead in Bengali is কিউমুলোনিম্বাস মেঘের উপরের অংশ. See Thunderhead meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is thunderhead?
Thunderhead is a noun.
How do you pronounce thunderhead?
Thunderhead is pronounced /ˈθʌndɚˌhɛd/ (US).
What is the plural of thunderhead?
The plural of thunderhead is thunderheads.

Words near thunderhead in the dictionary

  1. thunderful
  2. thundergod
  3. thundergods
  4. thundergust
  5. thundergusts
  6. thunderhead
  7. thunderheaded
  8. thunderheads
  9. thunderiest
  10. thunderin'
  11. thundering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thunderhead (page history and authors); thunderhead (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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