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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Jupiter Tonans, Thunderernoun

    an epithet for Jupiter

  2. thunderernoun

    a noisemaker that makes a sound like thunder

Wiktionary

  1. thunderernoun

    One who thunders

  2. Thunderernoun

    nickname of The Times newspaper

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Thunderernoun

    The power that thunders.

    Etymology: from thunder.

    How dare you, ghosts,
    Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt you know,
    Sky-planted, batters all rebelling coasts? William Shakespeare.

    Had the old Greeks discover’d your abode,
    Crete had’nt been the cradle of their god;
    On that small island they had look’d with scorn,
    And in Great Britain thought the thunderer born. Edmund Waller.

    When the bold Typheus
    Forc’d great Jove from his own heav’n to fly,
    The lesser gods that shar’d his prosp’rous state,
    All suffer’d in the exil’d thunderer ’s fate. Dryden.

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  1. thunderer

    A thunderer is typically a reference to someone or something that produces a loud, thunder-like noise or sound. It is often used in a metaphorical sense to describe a person with a powerful voice or significant influence. In mythology, it is commonly used to refer to a god or deity associated with thunder, such as Zeus in Greek mythology or Thor in Norse mythology.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Thunderernoun

    one who thunders; -- used especially as a translation of L. tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, esp. to Jupiter

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Thunderer

    name given to the Times, from certain powerful articles in it ascribed to the editor, Captain Edward Stirling.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Thunderer in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Thunderer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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