Allude

//əˈljuːd//

Synonyms for "allude" (23 found)

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Closest matches (5)

Strong matches (7)

Related words (11)

Related word relations

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9 relation types

More general

2 entries

More specific

2 entries

Synonyms

7 entries

Related terms

7 entries

derived

3 entries

entails

1 entries

manner of

1 entries

related to

6 entries

similar

9 entries

Translations

52 translations across 25 languages.

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Belarusian

2 entries
  • намякаць verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • намякну́ць verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Bulgarian

2 entries
  • загатвам verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • споменавам verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Catalan

1 entries
  • al·ludir verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Czech

4 entries
  • dělat narážky verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • narážet verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • nepřímo poukázat verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • nepřímo zmínit verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Dutch

3 entries
  • alluderen verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • toespelen verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • zinspelen verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • aludi verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Finnish

2 entries
  • vihjata verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • viitata verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

French

3 entries
  • alluder verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • faire allusion verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • suggérer verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

German

3 entries
  • andeuten verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • anspielen verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • erwähnen verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Greek

4 entries
  • συνιστώ verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • συστήνω verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • υπαινίσσομαι verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • υπονοώ verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Irish

2 entries
  • ailléidigh verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • tagair do verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Italian

1 entries
  • alludere verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 嫌味を言う verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • 当て付ける verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • 当て擦る verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • 遠回しに触れる verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Occitan

1 entries
  • alludir verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Persian

1 entries
  • اشاره کردن verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Polish

1 entries
  • pić verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • aludir verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Romanian

2 entries
  • face aluzie verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • referi verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Russian

4 entries
  • намека́ть verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • намекну́ть verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • подразумевать verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • упомина́ть verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • luaidh verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • aludirati verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Spanish

2 entries
  • aludir verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • referirse verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Swedish

2 entries
  • alludera verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • anspela verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Thai

1 entries
  • พาดพิง verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • натякати verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)
  • посилатися verb (refer to something indirectly or by suggestion)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In the early part of my study, I allude to work that had already been done on the psychology of crowd-control.

Source: tatoeba (59413)

Statements from the summit will probably allude to avoidance of future health crises, measures to ease climate change and steps toward a "green" economy, Menon said.

Source: tatoeba (11282349)

I have been studying Japanese aesthetics consciously since my teenage years on Lulu Island, or maybe even before, as a prepubescent somewhat unwittingly in the Philippines. In Quezon City, we kids watched Japanese samurai shows and cartoons. We made Zero fighters and Messerschmidts as cardboard airplanes to hang from the ceiling of our library, where we had collection jars of crab-like spiders with thick exoskeletons. On Lulu Island, I studied autodidactically the basics of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji, the components of the Japanese language, during vacation as a teenager, whilst I did also watercolour painting and sculptures from DAS air-dry clay. I then took Japanese language in university. In my twenties, I actually lived in Japan for some time. Later, for years on my Social Media, I have been observing exquisite Japanese images. And I become a fan of anime. To me, Japanese aesthetics allude to Finnish, Eskimo, and Polynesian artwork. Japanese art can contrast the ancient with the ultramodern.

Source: tatoeba (12312747)

These speeches . . . do seem to allude unto such ministerial garments as were then in use.

Source: wiktionary

Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.