prayer beads

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   a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)

   Synonymsrosary

   Broaderbeads

Questions about prayer beads

What does prayer beads mean?

prayer beads means "a string of beads used in counting prayers (especially by Catholics)".

What is another word for prayer beads?

Close synonyms include rosary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prayer beads a common word?

prayer beads is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.