millstones

Meaning of millstones

noun
  1. A large round stone used for grinding grain.
  2. A coarse-grained sandstone used for making such stones; millstone grit.
  3. Often in a millstone round one's neck (referring to Matthew 18:6 in the Bible): a heavy responsibility that is difficult to bear.
    Paying the mortgage every month is a millstone round their necks.

Information about millstones

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of millstones is: millstone.
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Hyphenation of millstones

mill-stones

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

Words that rhyme with millstones

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