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thundershower

thundershower noun: a rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.

thundershower: a rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning
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Noun

thundershower (plural thundershowers)

  1. A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
    • The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.
    • [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72

Forms of thundershower

pluralthundershowers

Origin of thundershower

From thunder + shower.

Words formed from thundershower

Questions about thundershower

What does thundershower mean?
Thundershower means a rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
What part of speech is thundershower?
Thundershower is a noun.
What is the plural of thundershower?
The plural of thundershower is thundershowers.

Words near thundershower in the dictionary

  1. thunderplumps
  2. thunderproof
  3. thunders
  4. thundershock
  5. thundershocks
  6. thundershower
  7. thundershowers
  8. thundershowery
  9. Thundersley
  10. thundersnow
  11. thundersnows

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