thunderern.
/ˈθʌndərə/ One who or that which thunders.
1.
a. He who thunders or causes thunder: applied to God, or to a deity, as Jupiter or Thor.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Jupiter
Jupiterc1275
Jovec1374
thundererc1374
altitonant?1578
lightener1598
thunder-darter1605
thunder-bearer1608
Saturnian1611
fulminator1613
thunder-mastera1616
fly-way-driver1658
Jupiter Pluvius1864
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. met. vi. 111 The lawes of the heye thonderere, þat is to seyn of god.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Thundrer, altitonans, tis, a name that the panyms gaue to God.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 189 Iupiter... How dare you Ghostes Accuse the Thunderer . View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 492 Once the Gods..Conspired to bind the Thund'rer.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 23 Make my suit to Jupiter The Thunderer.
b. A person employed at a dramatic representation to imitate thunder by some mechanical means.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > one in charge of mechanical devices
thunderer1711
machinist1740
flyman1883
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 235. ¶2 Others will have it to be the Play-house Thunderer.
1807 Salmagundi 19 Sept. 306 It will be a further gratification to the patriotic audience to know that the present thunderer is a fellow countryman.
2. figurative. A resistless warrior; a powerful declaimer or orator, an utterer of violent invective, or the like; spec. as a sobriquet of the London Times newspaper.
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the mind > emotion > courage > heroism > [noun] > brave warrior
thanec893
berne937
helethOE
wightlingc1330
felona1400
viragoa1513
thunderer1586
paladin1592
Fian1787
beau sabreur1834
war hero1898
the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > loud or vociferous oratory > one who engages in
concionatrixc1430
concionator1623
tub-thumper1662
haranguera1668
thunderer1785
society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > titles of newspapers
observator1642
mercury1643
post1645
examiner1710
echo1729
times1788
mail1789
messenger1796
thunderer1830
anti-Jacobin1867
Trib1878
Nikkei1982
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 652 Who will not wish to haue the surname of Aristides the iust..rather than as many vse to be called Conquerours, Besiegers, Thunderers?
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 221 To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task: But I can feel thy fortunes..with as true a heart As any thund'rer there.
1830 Morning Herald 15 Feb. 3/1 Any person or persons..may receive further particulars..by application..at the office of The Thunderer, Printing House-square.
1840 T. Carlyle Let. 13 June in C. & Lond. Libr. (1907) 58 Six and sixpence—for a Times advertisement, which the Thunderer dunned me for to-day!
1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xv. 114 It was the writing of Edward Sterling that gave the Times the name of the ‘Thunderer’.
1884 W. M. Dickson in Harper's Mag. June 64/1 He reappeared in the arena, again the thunderer of the scene.
3. Something that makes a noise like thunder; spec. a toy made of a flat thin piece of wood or an ox-rib with a string attached at one end, which makes a roaring noise when whirled round; a ‘bullroarer’.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > rattles or whirrers > [noun]
hurr1483
hurre-bone1483
rattle1519
rittle-rattle1567
clickets1611
bummer1821
bullroarer1848
thunderer1860
whizzer188.
tick-tack1884
whizzing-stick1890
whizzing-blade1905
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [noun] > instrument
ceraunoscope1827
thunderer1860
turndun1880
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xxv. 364 A new [shaft] is hollowed out, in which..the cataract plays the thunderer.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 81 ‘Thunderers’, a bricklayer's thin lath, etc.
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