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thunderstorms

thunderstorms is the plural of thunderstorm.

Meaning of thunderstorm

Noun

thunderstorm (plural thunderstorms)

  1. A storm consisting of thunder and lightning produced by a cumulonimbus, usually accompanied with heavy rain, wind, and sometimes hail; and in rarer cases sleet, freezing rain, or snow.
    • I have never believed, as some people do, in omens and forewarnings, for the dramatic things in my life have generally come upon me as suddenly as a tropical thunder-storm.1936 July, John Buchan, “Lost Gods”, in The Island of Sheep, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, part I (Fosse), page 11

Phrases with thunderstorms

Questions about thunderstorms

What is thunderstorms the plural of?
Thunderstorms is the plural of thunderstorm.

Words near thunderstorms in the dictionary

  1. thundersticks
  2. thunderstone
  3. thunderstones
  4. thunderstorm
  5. thunderstorm asthma
  6. thunderstorms
  7. thunderstormy
  8. thunderstricken
  9. thunderstrike
  10. thunderstrikes
  11. thunderstriking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thunderstorms (page history and authors); thunderstorm (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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