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thunderlight

thunderlight noun: lightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.

Noun

thunderlight (plural thunderlights)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Lightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.
    • A pillar of fire something like a thunderlight was seen for 30 minutes. No sound was accompanied.1986, Association for the Development of Earthquake Prediction (Japan), Earthquake prediction research
    • This powerful but disquieting thunderlight circled the tiny body with the idiot speed of the atmosphere surrounding a gas giant—Jupiter, say, or Saturn.1995, Stephen King, Insomnia

Forms of thunderlight

pluralthunderlights

Origin of thunderlight

From Middle English thonderlyht, equivalent to thunder + light.

Questions about thunderlight

What does thunderlight mean?
Thunderlight means lightning; a bolt or flash of lightning.
What part of speech is thunderlight?
Thunderlight is a noun.
What is the plural of thunderlight?
The plural of thunderlight is thunderlights.

Words near thunderlight in the dictionary

  1. thundering herd
  2. thundering herd problems
  3. thunderingly
  4. thunderings
  5. thunderless
  6. thunderlight
  7. thunderlights
  8. thunderlike
  9. thundermug
  10. thundermugs
  11. thunderous

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