English
Etymology
thunder + bolt
Noun
thunderbolt (plural thunderbolts)
- A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
- (figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
- Dryden
- the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
- Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
- Hakewill
- He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
- (soccer) A very powerful shot.
2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC[1]:Substitute Niko Kranjcar's injury-time thunderbolt gave Tottenham a dramatic win over Bolton.
- (paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
- (heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
- A daring or irresistible hero.
Derived terms
Translations
flash of lightning accompanied by thunder
- Arabic: صَاعِقَة (ṣāʕiqa)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 霹靂/霹雳 (zh) (pīlì), 霹雳 (zh) (pīlì), 迅雷 (zh) (xùnléi)
- Chuvash: ҫиҫӗм (śiś̬ĕm)
- Dutch: bliksemstraal (nl), donderstraal (nl), donderslag (nl)
- Finnish: salamanisku (fi), ukkosenjyrähdys, salama (fi)
- French: coup de tonnerre (fr) m
- Friulian: folc m, saete f, sfulmin
- Galician: lóstrego (gl) m
- German: Donnerkeil m, Blitzstrahl m, Blitz mit Donnerschlag m
- Greek: κεραυνός (el) m (keravnós), αστραπή (el) f (astrapí)
- Ancient: κεραυνός m (keraunós)
- Hungarian: villámcsapás (hu)
- Istriot: sàita f
- Italian: fulmine (it), folgore (it), saetta (it), lampo (it)
- Japanese: 雷 (ja) (かみなり, kaminari), 落雷 (ja) (らくらい, rakurai)
- Korean: 벼락 (ko) (byeorak)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Latin: fulmen n
- Low German: Blitzsteen m
- Maori: epa
- Norman: foudre f
- Persian: رعد و برق (ra'd-o-barq), صاعقه (fa) (sâ'eqe), آذرخش (fa) (âzaraxš)
- Portuguese: raio (pt) m
- Romanian: fulger (ro) n
- Russian: уда́р мо́лнии m (udár mólnii)
- Sanskrit: नरक (sa) (naraka), वज्र (sa) (vajra)
- Spanish: rayo (es) m
- Swedish: vigg (sv) c, tordön (sv) c, åskknall (sv) c
- Tajik: соиқа (tg) (soyiqa)
- Telugu: పిడుగు (te) (piḍugu)
- Venetian: sita f, saéta f
- Welsh: taranau, taranfollt
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an event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected
See also