thundershower

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noun

A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.

“The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.”

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Meanings

nounthundershower (plural thundershowers)

plural thundershowers

  1. A rain shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.

    The thundershower poured down on us as we ran home, but returned to a drizzle after several minutes.

    1 more example

    [S]ometimes, like the priests of Baal in the Bible, he would cut himself with knives till the blood fell upon the ground in great drops suggestive of an oncoming thunder-shower.

    1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 72

Origin

From thunder + shower.

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APA

thundershower. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thundershower

MLA

“thundershower.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thundershower. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thundershower,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thundershower.

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