THUNDERCLOUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thundercloud mean? 

• THUNDERCLOUD (noun)
  The noun THUNDERCLOUD has 1 sense:

1. a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms

  Familiarity information: THUNDERCLOUD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUNDERCLOUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

cumulonimbus; cumulonimbus cloud; thundercloud

Hypernyms ("thundercloud" is a kind of...):

cloud (a visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude)

 Context examples 

I don't think anyone would care to try it, if you looked as much like a thundercloud as you do now.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To us they were a class apart, to be hinted at rather than named, with the wrath of the Almighty hanging over them like a thundercloud.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)