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say it: THUHN-dur-burd
thunderbird is a noun meaning "(mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird". It is pronounced /ˈθʌndɚˌbɝd/ — THUHN-dur-burd. It carries one recorded sense.
(mythology) the spirit of thunder and lightning believed by some Native Americans to take the shape of a great bird
mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thunderbird come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.