brimstone

brim·stone  (brmstn)

n.

1. Sulfur.

2.

a. Damnation to hell.

b. Fiery or passionate rhetoric: "the great American evangelist of Yankee bargain-hunting, converting us . . . with the brimstone of his secular preaching" (Rushworth M. Kidder).

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[Middle English brimston, from Old English brynstn; see g^wher- in Indo-European roots.]

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brimstone [ˈbrɪmˌstəʊn]

n

1. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) an obsolete name for sulphur

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a common yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx rhamni, of N temperate regions of the Old World: family Pieridae

3. Archaic a scolding nagging woman; virago

[Old English brynstān; related to Old Norse brennistein; see burn¹, stone]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

brimstone - an old name for sulfur native sulfur, native sulphur atomic number 16, sulfur, sulphur, S - an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)

Translations

brimstone [ˈbrɪmstəʊn] N → azufre m

brimstone [ˈbrɪmstəʊn] n (old-fashioned, literary) → soufre m
fire and brimstone → les flammes fpl de l'enfer

brimstone

n (= sulphur) → Schwefel m