barathrum

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
“
Aestus in abruptum detulerat barathrum,

View all »
Definitions (3)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (3)

  1. A rocky place or pit outside the walls of ancient Athens, into which criminals were thrown.
  2. The abyss; hell. He will eat a leg of mutton while I am in my porridge, … his belly is like Barathrum. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1.
  3. Anything that swallows up or devours; the belly; an insatiable glutton or extortioner. You come To scour your dirty maw with the good cheer, Which will be damn'd in your lean barathrum, That kitchen stuff devourer: Shirley, The Wedding, ii. 3. You barathrum of the shambles! Massinger, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, iii. 2.

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (9)

More examples »
 

Tags

barathrum hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 31 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Latin, from (Greek βάραθρον, Ionic βέρεθρον, contr. βέθρον, a gulf, pit.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

one-out · mashed · colorful · countermand · phylogenetic

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

these grunts every eight hours · haul it off to our darkest dungeon · send for a doctor · forget what witticism you were originally going to insert here because you've just banged your knee on your desk · the rest will come naturally