Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large dark cloud charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning; a cumulonimbus cloud.
- noun Something menacing or dreadful.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cloud that produces lightning and thunder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a large, dark
cloud , usually acumulonimbus , charged withelectricity and producingthunder and lightning ; astormcloud - noun by extension something
menacing andbrooding
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms
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Examples
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When the thundercloud is over the cork, click the cloud.
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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When the thundercloud is over the cork, click the cloud.
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The sword/staff drawing a line along the curve of the thundercloud is a brilliant touch.
Micahel Whelan’s cover for Brandon Sander’s The Way of Kings Irene Gallo 2010
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Johnson will also be taking this week off to enjoy a brief family break, though Mrs Johnson may struggle to relax with such a dark thundercloud hanging over the breakfast table.
Wales 19-9 England | Rugby World Cup warm-up match report 2011
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He goes off to play a DVD game, looking like a thundercloud.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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If I cared about numbers I would measure these shadows and thundercloud bruises and stagnant mosquito magnet hours.
Glamour Sham Misti Rainwater-Lites 2011
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He goes off to play a DVD game, looking like a thundercloud.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Erratic trails of water that meet in a puddle in another untitled photograph look like lightning from an inverted thundercloud.
Painter Seth Adelsberger shakes things up in Civilian Art show 2011
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The black man in Los Angeles sitting on the curb, a thundercloud of smoke rushing out his lips.
A Fish Ivan R. 2011
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But I know you heard us, our locks, our curls weighed down with mist, salt wind, rainstorm, thundercloud, stilled by our audible voices.
dance of the darling soul Jerry Ratch 2011
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