Thunderbird Definition

thŭndər-bûrd
noun
In the mythology of certain North American Indians, an enormous bird that produces thunder, lightning, and rain.
Webster's New World

An Australian insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala gutturalis), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.

Wiktionary

(UK, railway) A locomotive stored at a strategic point on the network so as to be available to quickly rescue a failed train.

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Other Word Forms of Thunderbird

Noun

Singular:
thunderbird
Plural:
thunderbirds

Origin of Thunderbird

  • From the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organisation.

    From Wiktionary

  • From thunder + bird.

    From Wiktionary

Thunderbird Sentence Examples

  • She parked her gray Thunderbird behind Denton's bright red sports car and climbed the steps to the porch.

  • He married a pre-existent bird, the thunderbird Tootah (we have met him among the Zulus), and by the bird he became the father of Indians.

  • The remaining 20 episodes of the series were shot back-to-back with Thunderbird 6 over a five month period.

  • However, has anybody got a spare mudguard for a Thunderbird?

  • Jonathan Hoare waxes rhapsodic about a 1950 Triumph 6T Thunderbird.

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Words Starting With

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