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Definition: Brimstone |
BrimstoneNoun1. An old name for sulfur. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "brimstone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
19th Century Satire | A little bit of Hades, which finds its match on earth and smells to heaven. Better to strike it here than in the hereafter. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Brimstone an inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. The cities of the plain were destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24, 25). In Isa. 34:9 allusion is made to the destruction of these cities. This word figuratively denotes destruction or punishment (Job 18:15; Isa. 30:33; 34:9; Ps. 11:6; Ezek. 38:22). It is used to express the idea of excruciating torment in Rev. 14:10; 19:20; 20:10. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemistry | Common or commercial name for sulphur, especially native sulphur or fine sulphur fused into rolls, sticks or blocks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of brimstone, foretells that discreditable dealings will lose you many friends. if you fail to rectify the mistakes you are making. To see fires of brimstone, denotes you will be threatened with loss by contagion in your vicinity. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | A common name for sulfur. Syn:brenston. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | A BLASTED FELLOW or BRIMSTONE. An abandoned rogue or prostitute. Cant. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: BrimstoneSynonym: native sulfur (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fuel | Coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder. (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge; solid fueled rocket. |
Hell | Hell fire; everlasting fire, everlasting torment, eternal damnation; lake of fire and brimstone; fire that is never quenched; worm that never dies. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Brimstone |
| English words defined with "brimstone": Brimstony ♦ Sulphureous. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "brimstone": A BLASTED FELLOW ♦ SCOTCH CHOCOLATE. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "brimstone": Thionine. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm sorry, I didn't catch that, I think I got a chunk of brimstone stuck in my ear- (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson) Fires and brimstone coming down from the sky, rivers and seas boiling-- (Ghost Busters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) You'll have your part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. (Millennium; writing credit: Eric Knight) Whoever opens this box will be turned into brimstone and ashes (Kiss Me Deadly; writing credit: Mickey Spillane; A.I. Bezzerides) Well, we don't preach fire and brimstone. 10 Commandments, gotta live by those (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) | |
Lyrics | Some brimstone baritone anti cyclone rolling stone preacher from the east (Blinded By The Light (Bruce Springsteen); performing artist: MANFRED MANN) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Brimstone (1949) The Bad Man of Brimstone (1937) Fire in a Brimstone (1925) Brimstone (1998) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury |
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| "Brimstone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "Brimstone" is used about 44 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.91% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 44 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| South Africa | Brimstone Investments Corporation Limited |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "brimstone": fire and brimstone ♦ lake of fire and brimstone ♦ vegetable brimstone. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "brimstone": fire-and-brimstone. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brimstone | 62 |
brimstone and fire | 12 |
brimstone treacle | 6 |
brimstone fur | 5 |
brimstone thunder | 4 |
brimstone dragon | 4 |
brimstone fire lake | 3 |
brimstone tv | 2 |
brimstone fire hell | 2 |
brimstone picture | 2 |
brimstone hill | 2 |
brimstone schoolbooks | 2 |
biblical brimstone city destroy did fire god two | 2 |
brimstone butterfly | 2 |
brimstone hellfire | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "brimstone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | squfur (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Arabic | الكبريت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сяра (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Chinese | 硫磺 (sulfur, sulphur, sulphurs). (various references) | |
Danish | natursvovl (native sulfur, native sulphur), frit svovl (native sulfur, native sulphur). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwavel (sulfur, sulphur), gedegen zwavel (native sulfur, native sulphur). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sulfuro (sulphur). (various references) | |
Faeroese | svávul (sulphur). (various references) | |
Farsi | گوگرد. (various references) | |
Finnish | tulikivi, puhdas rikki (native sulfur, native sulphur), luonnonrikki (native sulfur, native sulphur). (various references) | |
French | soufre. (various references) | |
Frisian | swevel (sulphur). (various references) | |
German | schwefel (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Greek | αυτοφυές θείο (native sulfur, native sulphur), θειάφι (sulfur, sulphur), θείο (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sárkány (airframe, basilisk, cockatrice, dragon, drake, kite, vixen, wyvern), kénkő (sulphur), harcias nő, hárpia (catamaran, harpy, shrew, termagant). (various references) | |
Indonesian | belerang (sulphur). (various references) | |
Irish | sulfar (sulphur), ruibh (sulphur). (various references) | |
Italian | zolfo nativo (native sulfur, native sulphur), zolfo (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Manx | clagh lostee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imstonebray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ranzinza (crabby, nagging, querulous), enxofre nativo (native sulfur, native sulphur), enxofre (sulfur, sulphur), enxôfre (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Romanian | sulf (sulphur), pucioasã (sulphur), persoanã rea de gurã. (various references) | |
Russian | сера (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Scottish | riofa, pronnasg (sulphur), pronasg. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sumpor (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Spanish | fuego del infierno, azufre natural (native sulfur, native sulphur), azufre nativo (native sulfur, native sulphur), azufre (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Swedish | svavel (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Turkish | sarı renkli, kükürt (sulfur, sulphur). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самородна сірка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lưu huỳnh. (various references) | |
Welsh | brwmstan (sulfur). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sulphur, sulphure, sulphuris, sulpur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 19, Verse 24 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai kurioV ebrexen epi sodoma kai gomorra qeion kai pur para kuriou ek tou ouranou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Igitur Dominus pluit super Sodomam et Gomorram sulphur et ignem a Domino de caelo |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ond God sende to þam burgum ealbyrnendne renscur mid swefle gemencged, ond ða sceamleasan fordyde. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne the Lord reynede vpon Sodom and Gomor brenstoon and fier, fro the Lord fro heuene, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Than the LORde rayned vpon Sodome and Gomorra brymstone and fyre from the LORde out of heaven |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 19, Verse 24 |
| Cebuano | Unya gipaulan ni Jehova sa Sodoma ug Gomorra ang azufre ug kalayo nga gikan kang Jehova didto sa langit; |
| Chinese | 當 時 耶 ' 華 將 硫 磺 與 火 、 從 天 上 耶 ' 華 那 裡 、 降 與 所 多 瑪 ' 蛾 摩 拉 、 |
| Croatian | Jahve zapljušti s neba na Sodomu i Gomoru sumpornim ognjem |
| Danish | lod HERREN Svovl og Ild regne over Sodoma og Gomorra fra HERREN, fra Himmelen; |
| Dutch | Toen deed de HEERE zwavel en vuur over Sodom en Gomorra regenen, van den HEERE uit den hemel. |
| Finnish | Ja Herra antoi sataa Sodoman ja Gomorran päälle tulikiveä ja tulta, Herran tyköä taivaasta, |
| French | Alors l`Éternel fit pleuvoir du ciel sur Sodome et sur Gomorrhe du soufre et du feu, de par l`Éternel. |
| German | Da ließ der HERR Schwefel und Feuer regnen von Himmel herab auf Sodom und Gomorra |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tiba-tiba TUHAN menurunkan hujan belerang yang berapi atas Sodom dan Gomora. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Setelah itu maka diturunkan oleh Tuhan atas Sodom dan Gomorah hujan belerang dan api dari pada Tuhan, yaitu dari langit. |
| Maori | ¶ Katahi ka uaina e Ihowa ki Horoma, ki Komora, he whanariki, he ahi na Ihowa, no te rangi; |
| Norwegian | Da lot Herren det regne svovel og ild - fra Herren, fra himmelen - ned over Sodoma og Gomorra. |
| Portuguese | Então o Senhor, da sua parte, fez chover do céu enxofre e fogo sobre Sodoma e Gomorra. |
| Rumanian | Atunci Domnul a fqcut sq ploaie peste Sodoma wi peste Gomora pucioasq wi foc dela Domnul din cer. |
| Spanish | Entonces Jehovah hizo llover desde los cielos azufre y fuego de parte de Jehovah sobre Sodoma y Gomorra. |
| Swedish | lät HERREN svavel och eld regna från himmelen, från HERREN, över Sodom och Gomorra; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "brimstone": brimstones. (additional references) | |
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"Brimstone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bramcote, Bramston, Branstone, Brauston, Brigston, brimston, Briston, Broxstowe, Brundstone, Brunstane, Bwimstone, Rempstone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "brimstone" (pronounced bri"mstōn) |
| 3 | -t ō n | ketone, lactone. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-m-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: bornites, bromines. | |
-2 letters: boniest, bornite, bromine, bromins, entombs, erotism, intombs, mentors, merinos, mestino, minster, minters, mobster, moisten, moister, monster, mortise, norites, oestrin, orbiest, orients, remints, sentimo, sorbent, stonier, timbers, timbres, trisome. | |
-3 letters: bemist, bestir, betons, biomes, bionts, bister, bistre, bistro, biters, boites, boners, bonier, brents, brines, bromes, bromin, entomb, eonism, estrin, inerts, inmost. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-m-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: brimstones, brominates. | |
+2 letters: tambourines. | |
+3 letters: brainstormed, brainstormer, embarkations, embrocations, embroilments, recombinants, theobromines. | |
+4 letters: abnormalities, biometricians, brainstormers, immunosorbent, moribundities, postembryonic, precombustion, thrombokinase. | |
+5 letters: bromocriptines, disembarkation, immunosorbents, indemonstrable, indemonstrably, insurmountable, perambulations, precombustions, recombinations, retinoblastoma, subnormalities, thrombokinases, troublemakings. | |
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