Dictionary entry
Thunder
Pronunciation: /ˈθʌndə/
Pronunciation
/ˈθʌndə/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) မိုးချုန်းသံ
Definition
thunder /'θʌndǝ(r)/ n (က) [U] မိုးၿခိမ္းသံ။ မိုးခ်ဳန္းသံ။ a crash/ peal/ roll of thunder ❍ There's thunder in the air (ie Thunder is likely). (ခ) [U, sing] ဟိန္းသံ။ the thunder of the guns/ jets/ drums ❍ a/ the thunder of applause. v ၁။ (used with it ) မိုးခ်ဳန္းသည္။ မိုးၿခိမ္းသည္။ It thundered all night. ၂။ (က) တေျဖာင္းေျဖာင္းျမည္သည္၊ ျမည္ဟည္း သည္။ thundering hooves ❍ A voice thundered in my ear. (ခ) တဂ်ိန္းဂ်ိန္း ျမည္သည္၊ ျမည္ဟည္းသည္။ heavy trucks thundering along/by/past ❍ The train thundered through the station. ၃။ ~ against sth/at sb ဆူပြက္သည္။ ေဟာက္သည္။ reformers thundering against corruption ❍ ‘How dare you speak to me that way?’ he thundered. ❏ thunderous /-dǝrǝs/ adj တေျဖာင္းေျဖာင္း၊ တေဝါေဝါ (လက္ခုပ္သံ၊ ခ်ီးက်ဴးသံ)။ thunderous applause. thunderously adv ❏ thundery /-dǝri/ adj ထစ္ခ်ဳန္းေသာ။ a thundery day.
Examples
- A roll of thunder (=a series of noises)
- A clap of thunder (=a single very loud noise)
- The thunder of hooves on the dry earth