hecatomb

Meaning of hecatomb

noun
  1. A great feast and public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen.
  2. (by extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.

Information about hecatomb

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of hecatomb is: hecatombs.
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Hyphenation of hecatomb

hecatomb

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
  • hecatomb is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with hecatomb

tomb, retomb, disentomb, entomb, intomb, untomb

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