thunderstone
noun
thunderstone is a noun meaning “A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-U-N-D-E-R-S-T-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thunderstone is thunderstones.
What does thunderstone mean?
noun
- 1
archaicA thunderbolt.
- 2
A stone or fossil thought to be, or be caused by, a thunderbolt striking the earth.
- 3
A belemnite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thunderstone
- thunderstones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thunderstone?
Thunderstone appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does thunderstone come from?
From thunder + stone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).