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name
Mozilla Thunderbird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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name
Ford Thunderbird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: automotive, transport, vehicles
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noun
A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative letter-case form of thunderbird.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A locomotive stored at a strategic point on the network so as to be available to quickly rescue a failed train.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
(mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: spirit, disembodied spirit
History
The railway sense is derived from the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds, about a secretive high-tech rescue organization, ultimately from thunderbird.
From thunder + bird.
Across languages
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
