Meaning

2 senses
  1. A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.

    Donnervogel

    громовая птицаgromovaja ptica

  2. The golden whistler, an Australian insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis, formerly Pachycephala gutturalis), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.

More definitions
  • (mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The Mozilla Foundation released the latest version of its email/news-client software, "Thunderbird 2.0.0.14" on May 1st.

  2. My Thunderbird sorts notification e-mails from Tatoeba into three different folders without my having asked it to do so.

    deMein Donnervogel sortiert Benachrichtigungsmails von Tatoeba in drei verschiedene Ordner, ohne dass ich ihn darum gebeten hätte. — BraveSentry

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
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Deutsch
By meaning 1
mythological bird:

Origin

From thunder + bird.

From thunder + bird.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: thunderbirds
Singularthunderbird
Pluralthunderbirds

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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