“thunders” is a form of
thunder
/ˈθʌndə/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms thunders thundering thundered thunderest thunderedst thundereth
- noun The loud rumbling, cracking, or crashing sound caused by expansion of rapidly heated air around a lightning bolt. “Thunder is preceded by lightning.”
- noun A deep, rumbling noise resembling thunder. “Off in the distance, he heard the thunder of hoofbeats, signalling a stampede.”
- noun An alarming or startling threat or denunciation.
- noun (obsolete) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
- noun (literature) Synonym of thunder word.
- verb (impersonal) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity. “It thundered continuously.”
- verb (intransitive) To make a noise like thunder. “The train thundered along the tracks.”
- verb (ergative) To (make something) move very fast (with loud noise).
- verb (intransitive, transitive) To say (something) with a loud, threatening voice. “"Get back to work at once!", he thundered.”
- verb To produce something with incredible power.
- proper noun The 13th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Synonyms
thunder word boom roar roaring big H hell dust nose drops smack skag scag
Etymology
From Middle English thunder, thonder, thundre, thonre, thunnere, þunre, from Old English þunor (“thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunr, from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ten-, *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”).
Compare astound, astonish, stun. Germanic cognates include West Frisian tonger, Dutch donder, German Donner, Old Norse Þórr (English Thor), Danish torden, Norwegian Nynorsk tore. Other cognates include Persian تندر (tondar), Latin tonō, detonō, Ancient Greek στένω (sténō), στενάζω (stenázō), στόνος (stónos), Στέντωρ (Sténtōr), Irish torann, Welsh taran, Gaulish Taranis. Doublet of donner, Thunor, and Thor.
From Middle English thundren, from Old English þunrian (“to thunder”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunrōn, from Proto-Germanic *þunrōną (“to thunder”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
- noun The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.]
- verb To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; --often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
- verb Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
Etymology [OE. , , , AS. ; akin to to stretch, to thunder, D. donder thunder, G. donner, OHG. donar, Icel. Thor, L. tonare to thunder, tonitrus thunder, Gr. tan to stretch. *52. See Thin, and cf. Astonish, Detonate, Intone, Thursday, Tone.]
Etymology [AS. . See Thunder, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “thunder”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details