Usually means: Dense cloud producing thunder and lightning.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. thundercloud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thundercloud: Merriam-Webster
  3. thundercloud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thundercloud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thundercloud: Collins English Dictionary
  6. thundercloud: Vocabulary.com
  7. Thundercloud, thundercloud: Wordnik
  8. thundercloud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. thundercloud: Wiktionary
  10. thundercloud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. thundercloud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. thundercloud: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. thundercloud: Dictionary.com
  14. thundercloud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thundercloud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thundercloud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thundercloud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thundercloud: Rhymezone
  19. Thundercloud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thundercloud: FreeDictionary.org
  21. thundercloud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. thundercloud: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thundercloud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (meteorology) A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning; a storm cloud.
▸ noun:  (by extension, figurative) Something menacing and brooding.

Similar:
cumulonimbus, Cumulonimbus cloud, thunderhead, thunderboomer, supercloud, thunder, pyrocumulonimbus, megastorm, superlightning, gigantic jet, more...

Opposite:
clear sky, sunshine, blue sky

Types:
cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus, cirrus, praecipitatio, more...

Phrases:
Chief Thundercloud, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, great, heavy, huge, threatening, big, distant, low, large, small



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Similar:
cumulonimbus, Cumulonimbus cloud, thunderhead, thunderboomer, supercloud, thunder, pyrocumulonimbus, megastorm, superlightning, gigantic jet, more...

Opposite:
clear sky, sunshine, blue sky

Types:
cumulonimbus, cumulus, stratus, cirrus, praecipitatio, more...

Phrases:
Chief Thundercloud, more...

Adjectives:
black, dark, great, heavy, huge, threatening, big, distant, low, large, small



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