Thunderstone vs. Thunderbolt

Thunderstonenoun

(archaic) A thunderbolt.

Thunderboltnoun

A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.

Thunderstonenoun

A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth.

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(figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.

Thunderstonenoun

A belemnite.

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Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

Thunderstonenoun

A thunderbolt, - formerly believed to be a stone.

‘Fear no more the lightning flash,Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone.’;

Thunderboltnoun

(soccer) A very powerful shot.

Thunderstonenoun

A belemnite. See Belemnite.

Thunderboltnoun

(paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.

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(heraldry) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.

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A daring or irresistible hero.

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A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

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Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness.

‘The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war.’;

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Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.

‘He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.’;

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A belemnite, or thunderstone.

Thunderboltnoun

a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

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a shocking surprise;

‘news of the attack came like a bombshell’;

Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father'; this association is also found in later Hellenic representations of Zeus and Vedic descriptions of the vajra wielded by the god Indra.