See thundershock on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "thunder",
"3": "shock"
},
"expansion": "thunder + shock",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From thunder + shock.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "thundershocks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "thundershock (plural thundershocks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
37,
49
]
],
"ref": "1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:",
"text": "The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
45,
57
]
],
"ref": "1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158:",
"text": "The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
66,
78
]
],
"ref": "1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13:",
"text": "Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
164,
177
]
],
"ref": "1989, R. G. Prinn, B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:",
"text": "The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
59,
71
]
],
"ref": "2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63:",
"text": "Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock."
],
"id": "en-thundershock-en-noun-sG2gOoCk",
"links": [
[
"burst",
"burst"
],
[
"thunder",
"thunder"
],
[
"thunderclap",
"thunderclap"
]
],
"related": [
{
"word": "thunderbolt"
}
]
}
],
"word": "thundershock"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "thunder",
"3": "shock"
},
"expansion": "thunder + shock",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From thunder + shock.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "thundershocks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "thundershock (plural thundershocks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "thunderbolt"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
37,
49
]
],
"ref": "1851, William Dana Emerson, The Old Town Clock: Occasional Thoughts, in Verse, page 97:",
"text": "The old Town Clock, / Like a distant thundershock, / Heard and gone, / Striking One!",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
45,
57
]
],
"ref": "1895, William Taylor, Story of my Life, page 158:",
"text": "The disappointment of some was almost like a thundershock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
66,
78
]
],
"ref": "1962, Louis Hadley Evans, Your Marriage: Duel Or Duet?, page 13:",
"text": "Every time a home is destroyed, the whole nation suffers a severe thundershock.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
164,
177
]
],
"ref": "1989, R. G. Prinn, B. Fegley, Jr., “Solar Nebula Chemistry: Origin of Planetary, Satellite and Cometary Volatiles”, in S. K. Atreya, James B. Pollack, Mildred Shapley Matthews, editors, Origin and Evolution of Planetary and Satellite Atmospheres, page 86:",
"text": "The simultaneous presence of fluid motions and abundant particles in the solar nebula make charge separation (and hence lightning discharges and their accompanying thundershocks) a likely but at the present time speculative phenomenon.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
59,
71
]
],
"ref": "2011, Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust, page 63:",
"text": "Reading about the life of St. Francis of Assisi had sent a thundershock to Julia's psyche.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sudden burst of thunder, a thunderclap; any similarly loud and sudden noise; a sudden, severe shock."
],
"links": [
[
"burst",
"burst"
],
[
"thunder",
"thunder"
],
[
"thunderclap",
"thunderclap"
]
]
}
],
"word": "thundershock"
}
Download raw JSONL data for thundershock meaning in All languages combined (2.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (e937b02 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.