noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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."

2. 2
   a short rainstorm accompanied by thunder and lightning wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

thunderthunderstorm

Example

More examples

"The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes."

Etymology

From thunder + shower.

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