how to pronounce brimstone

/ˈbɹɪmstoʊn/

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brimstone is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of brimstone in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… smoke like it smelled like brimstone in …”

meanings of brimstone

noun:

The butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni of the Pieridae family.
Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
The sulfur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
A whore.
Sulfur.

brimstone frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word brimstone occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics brimstone can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that brimstone can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;