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# thunderbolt

«thunderbolt» in Mova's school dictionary: **A flash of lightning together with a crash of thunder** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a thunderbolt, thunderbolts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flash of lightning together with a crash of thunder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#m1)

2) Something sudden and shocking: the news came like a thunderbolt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#m2)

3) (myths) A bolt of lightning thrown as a weapon by a god, such as Zeus in Greek myths or Thor in Norse myths. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Science: lightning is a giant spark of electricity; thunder is the sound it makes. Safety: in a storm stay indoors and away from tall trees. Myths: Zeus hurls thunderbolts. Stories: «like a thunderbolt» shows a big surprise.

### examples

- A thunderbolt struck the old oak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x1)
- Zeus threw thunderbolts from Mount Olympus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x2)
- The news hit us like a thunderbolt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x3)
- Thor's hammer made thunder and lightning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x4)
- The thunderbolt lit up the whole sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x5)
- Toad's arrest came like a thunderbolt to his friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x6)
- The Caliph's commandment fell upon me like a thunderbolt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/#x7)

### note

Compound: thunder + bolt. Real lightning is not a solid object; «bolt» is just a picture. Myth: lightning never strikes the same place twice — false; tall buildings are struck many times.

### In the corpora

- [Toad: «Me complain of that beautiful, that heavenly vision ... that swan, that sunbeam, that thunderbolt! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thunderbolt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thunderbolt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.