A thunderbolt is likely to fall any minute.
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Thunderbolt
//ˈθʌndə(ɹ)ˌboʊlt//
Synonyms for "thunderbolt" (85 found)
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Related words (42)
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79 translations across 41 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- rrufe noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κεραυνός noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Arabic
1 entries- صَاعِقَة noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гръмотевица noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- мълния noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Catalan
2 entries- llampec noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- raig de llamp noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 迅雷 noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- 霹靂 /霹雳 noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Chuvash
1 entries- ҫиҫӗм noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Dutch
3 entries- bliksemstraal noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- donderslag noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- donderstraal noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Finnish
4 entries- järkytys noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
- salama noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- salamanisku noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- ukkosenjyrähdys noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
French
1 entries- coup de tonnerre noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Friulian
3 entries- folc noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- saete noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- sfulmin noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Galician
1 entries- lóstrego noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
German
3 entries- Blitz mit Donnerschlag noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- Blitzstrahl noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- Donnerkeil noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Greek
3 entries- αστραπή noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- κεραυνός noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- κεραυνός noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
Hindi
1 entries- वज्रपात noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Hungarian
1 entries- villámcsapás noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Indonesian
1 entries- petir noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Istriot
1 entries- sàita noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Italian
4 entries- folgore noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- fulmine noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- lampo noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- saetta noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Japanese
2 entries- 落雷 noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- 雷 noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Korean
2 entries- 벼락 noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- 벼락 noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
Latin
4 entries- fulmen noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- ictus fulgōris noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- ictus fulminis noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- tonitrus noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Low German
1 entries- Blitzsteen noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Malayalam
4 entries- അശനി noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- ഇടിവാൾ noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- ദംഭോളി noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- മിന്നൽപ്പിണർ noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Māori
1 entries- epa noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Norman
1 entries- foudre noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- صاعقه noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- یلدرم noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Persian
3 entries- آذرخش noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- رعد و برق noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- صاعقه noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Polish
2 entries- grom z jasnego nieba noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
- piorun noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Portuguese
1 entries- raio noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Romanian
1 entries- fulger noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Russian
3 entries- гром среди́ я́сного не́ба noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
- перу́н noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- уда́р мо́лнии noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Sanskrit
3 entries- अशनि noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- कुलिश noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- वज्र noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Spanish
1 entries- rayo noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Swedish
3 entries- tordön noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- vigg noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- åskknall noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Tajik
1 entries- соиқа noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Telugu
2 entries- పిడుగు noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- పిడుగుపాటు noun (an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected)
Thai
1 entries- สายฟ้า noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Turkish
1 entries- yıldırım noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Venetan
2 entries- saéta noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- sita noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Welsh
2 entries- taranau noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
- taranfollt noun (flash of lightning accompanied by thunder)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The thunderbolt split the oak.
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He might have supposed the bull had been arrested in its career by a thunderbolt, had he not observed among the branches of the thicket the figure of a man, with a short gun or musquetoon in his hand.
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How does Iuppiter hurl a thunderbolt?
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