thunderstroke

English

Etymology

From thunder +‎ stroke; first known use in 1300s

Noun

thunderstroke (plural thunderstrokes)

  1. A thunderbolt.
    • 1864, Henry William Dulcken, Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights' Entertainments, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, page 604:
      Aladdin was greatly astonished at this intelligence. It came upon him like a thunder-stroke.

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