"The lizard dares to face the hydra." is like "Someone is attacking an ash tree with a sickle," one of our friends tells us.
Source: tatoeba (8232040)
Hydra
//ˈhaɪdɹə//
Synonyms for "hydra" (25 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Proper Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (8)
Proper Noun(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Related words (12)
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6 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
11 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
125 translations across 55 languages.
Albanian
3 entries- kuçedër name (mythical serpent)
- lubi name (mythical serpent)
- shkërbadër name (mythical serpent)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- ὕδρα name (mythical serpent)
- Ὕδρα name (constellation)
Arabic
2 entries- حَيَّة الْمِيَاه name (constellation)
- هِيدْرَا name (one of Pluto's moons)
Armenian
1 entries- Հիդրա name (one of Pluto's moons)
Belarusian
2 entries- Гідра name (one of Pluto's moons)
- гі́дра noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Breton
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Bulgarian
2 entries- Хидра name (one of Pluto's moons)
- хи́дра noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Catalan
1 entries- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 九頭蛇 /九头蛇 name (mythical serpent)
- 冥衛三 /冥卫三 name (one of Pluto's moons)
- 海德拉 name (mythical serpent)
- 許德拉 /许德拉 name (mythical serpent)
Czech
4 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (constellation)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- souhvězdí Hydry name (constellation)
Danish
2 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Dutch
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Esperanto
3 entries- Hidro name (constellation)
- Hidro name (one of Pluto's moons)
- hidro name (mythical serpent)
Finnish
4 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Vesikäärme name (constellation)
- lampipolyyppi noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
French
4 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Hydre name (constellation)
- Hydre name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Hydre de Lerne name (mythical serpent)
Galician
4 entries- Hidra name (mythical serpent)
- Hidra Femia name (constellation)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- hidra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
German
4 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Wasserschlange name (constellation)
- Hydra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Greek
3 entries- Ύδρα name (constellation)
- Ύδρα name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Λερναία Ύδρα name (mythical serpent)
Greenlandic
1 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
Hindi
1 entries- हाएड्रा name (one of Pluto's moons)
Hungarian
2 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- hidra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Ido
1 entries- S/2005 P 1 name (one of Pluto's moons)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐦᐄᑦᕋ name (mythical serpent)
Irish
3 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- an Phéist Uisce name (constellation)
Italian
3 entries- Idra name (constellation)
- Idra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Idra di Lerna name (mythical serpent)
Japanese
4 entries- うみへび座 name (constellation)
- ヒドラ name (one of Pluto's moons)
- ヒュドラー name (mythical serpent)
- 海蛇座 name (constellation)
Kazakh
2 entries- Гидра name (constellation)
- Гидра name (one of Pluto's moons)
Korean
3 entries- 바다뱀자리 name (constellation)
- 히드라 name (one of Pluto's moons)
- 히드라 noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Latin
4 entries- Anguis name (constellation)
- Hydra name (constellation)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- hydra name (mythical serpent)
Lithuanian
1 entries- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Low German
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Malay
1 entries- Ular name (constellation)
Manx
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Marathi
2 entries- हायड्रा name (mythical serpent)
- हायड्रा name (one of Pluto's moons)
Māori
1 entries- hurumoana noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Persian
1 entries- هیدرا name (one of Pluto's moons)
Polish
4 entries- Hydra name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (constellation)
- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- stułbia noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Portuguese
4 entries- Hidra name (mythical serpent)
- Hidra name (constellation)
- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Hidra de Lerna name (mythical serpent)
Romanian
2 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- hidră noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Russian
4 entries- Ги́дра name (constellation)
- Ги́дра name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Лерне́йская ги́дра name (mythical serpent)
- ги́дра noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Slovak
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Slovene
1 entries- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Spanish
4 entries- Hidra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- Hidra de Lerna name (mythical serpent)
- Hydra name (constellation)
- hydra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Swedish
1 entries- hydra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Tagalog
1 entries- idra noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Telugu
2 entries- హైడ్రా name (mythical serpent)
- హైడ్రా noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Thai
1 entries- ไฮดรา noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Turkish
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Ukrainian
2 entries- Гі́дра name (one of Pluto's moons)
- гі́дра noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Vietnamese
2 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
- thuỷ tức noun (any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Welsh
1 entries- Hydra name (one of Pluto's moons)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "Someone is attacking a mountain with a hoe", says another of our friends.
Source: tatoeba (8232179)
"The lizard dares to face the hydra" means something like "His opponent is too strong for him to face."
Source: tatoeba (8239356)
Hydra is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Algiers.
Source: tatoeba (11409532)
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