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noun
The sulfur of hell; hell, damnation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
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noun
Sulfur.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
A whore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, countable, uncountable
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noun
The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Online content of exceptionally poor quality, lower than coal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: gemerald
noun
an old name for sulfur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: native sulfur, native sulphur
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Broader terms: sulfur, S, sulphur, atomic number 16
History
From Middle English brymston, brimston, bremston, forms of brinston, brenston, bernston, from Old English brynstān (“brimstone”, literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to burn + stone. Cognate with Scots brunstane (“brimstone”), Icelandic brennisteinn (“sulfur / sulphur, brimstone”), German Bernstein (“amber”). Compare also brimfire. More at burn, stone. Although once a synonym for sulfur, the word is now largely restricted to poetic and Biblical usage.
Across languages
37 source translations are retained for this English entry.
