The allusion was not lost on me.
Source: tatoeba (24868)
Allusion
//əˈlu.ʒən//
Synonyms for "allusion" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Translations
65 translations across 42 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَلْمِيح noun (indirect reference, hint)
Armenian
1 entries- ակնարկ noun (indirect reference, hint)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- eyham noun (indirect reference, hint)
Belarusian
2 entries- алю́зія noun (indirect reference, hint)
- намёк noun (indirect reference, hint)
Bulgarian
3 entries- алю́зия noun (indirect reference, hint)
- зага́тване noun (indirect reference, hint)
- на́мек noun (indirect reference, hint)
Catalan
1 entries- al·lusió noun (indirect reference, hint)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 含義 /含义 noun (indirect reference, hint)
- 寓意 noun (indirect reference, hint)
- 暗指 noun (indirect reference, hint)
Czech
1 entries- aluze noun (indirect reference, hint)
Danish
1 entries- hentydning noun (indirect reference, hint)
Dutch
3 entries- allusie noun (indirect reference, hint)
- toespeling noun (indirect reference, hint)
- zinspeling noun (indirect reference, hint)
Esperanto
1 entries- aludo noun (indirect reference, hint)
Finnish
3 entries- alluusio noun (indirect reference, hint)
- vihje noun (indirect reference, hint)
- viittaus noun (indirect reference, hint)
French
1 entries- allusion noun (indirect reference, hint)
Galician
1 entries- alusión noun (indirect reference, hint)
German
2 entries- Allusion noun (indirect reference, hint)
- Anspielung noun (indirect reference, hint)
Greek
2 entries- νύξη noun (indirect reference, hint)
- υπαινιγμός noun (indirect reference, hint)
Hungarian
1 entries- utalás noun (indirect reference, hint)
Indonesian
3 entries- alusi noun (indirect reference, hint)
- kiasan noun (indirect reference, hint)
- kilatan noun (indirect reference, hint)
Irish
1 entries- ailléideach noun (indirect reference, hint)
Italian
1 entries- allusione noun (indirect reference, hint)
Japanese
2 entries- 仄めかし noun (indirect reference, hint)
- 暗示 noun (indirect reference, hint)
Korean
1 entries- 암시 noun (indirect reference, hint)
Latvian
2 entries- alūzija noun (indirect reference, hint)
- mājiens noun (indirect reference, hint)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Allusioun noun (indirect reference, hint)
Macedonian
1 entries- алузија noun (indirect reference, hint)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- allusjon noun (indirect reference, hint)
- hentydning noun (indirect reference, hint)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كنایه noun (indirect reference, hint)
Persian
1 entries- تلمیح noun (indirect reference, hint)
Polish
1 entries- aluzja noun (indirect reference, hint)
Portuguese
1 entries- alusão noun (indirect reference, hint)
Romanian
1 entries- aluzie noun (indirect reference, hint)
Russian
2 entries- аллю́зия noun (indirect reference, hint)
- намёк noun (indirect reference, hint)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- iomradh noun (indirect reference, hint)
- luaidh noun (indirect reference, hint)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- àlūzija noun (indirect reference, hint)
- а̀лӯзија noun (indirect reference, hint)
Slovak
1 entries- alúzia noun (indirect reference, hint)
Slovene
1 entries- aluzija noun (indirect reference, hint)
Spanish
1 entries- alusión noun (indirect reference, hint)
Sundanese
1 entries- ᮞᮤᮔ᮪ᮓᮤᮁ noun (indirect reference, hint)
Swedish
2 entries- allusion noun (indirect reference, hint)
- anspelning noun (indirect reference, hint)
Tagalog
3 entries- alusyon noun (indirect reference, hint)
- parunggit noun (indirect reference, hint)
- patayutay noun (indirect reference, hint)
Turkish
1 entries- gönderme noun (indirect reference, hint)
Ukrainian
2 entries- алю́зія noun (indirect reference, hint)
- на́тяк noun (indirect reference, hint)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
She makes no allusion in the book to her profession.
Source: tatoeba (311415)
She made an allusion to his misconduct.
Source: tatoeba (316438)
There's an allusion to one of Debussy's works in that song.
Source: tatoeba (1142074)
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