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Synonyms for albatross

  • noun

Most common

double eagle millstone goonie mollymawk goony gooney bird

All synonyms

Noun

millstone, double eagle, encumbrance, mollymawk, goonie, goony, gooney bird

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.

Related words

Phrases
black-browed albatross wandering albatross

Forms

Plural
albatrosses → millstones, encumbrances, mollymawks, goonies…

Example sentences

  • millstone Between the upper and nether millstone.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
albatrossrising
millstonerising
mollymawksteady
goonysteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

5 letters
goony
6 letters
goonie
9 letters
millstone2, mollymawk
11 letters
encumbrance

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (millstone2 = 2 syllables).