maelstroms

Meaning of maelstroms

plural noun

a powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river.

late 17th century: from early modern Dutch (denoting a mythical whirlpool in the Arctic Ocean, west of Norway), from maalen ‘grind, whirl’ + stroom ‘stream’.

Information about maelstroms

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of maelstroms is: maelstrom.
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Hyphenation of maelstroms

mael-stroms

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • maelstroms is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

maelstroms synonyms

Meaning a quickly rotating mass of water in a river or sea into which objects may be drawn, typically caused by the meeting of conflicting currents:

whirlpool

Meaning a whirling mass of fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind:

vortex

Meaning a circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool:

eddy

Meaning a quantity of something moving in a twisting or spiralling pattern:

swirl

Words that rhyme with maelstroms

Roms, roms, caroms, Abroms, diadroms, pogroms, caschroms, eproms, proms, carroms, angstroms

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