He stuck a straw into an anthill.
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Anthill
//ˈænt.hɪl//
Synonyms for "anthill" (37 found)
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Translations
112 translations across 83 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μυρμηκιά noun (home of ants and termites)
Arabic
1 entries- مَسْكَن نَمْل noun (home of ants and termites)
Armenian
2 entries- մրջնաբույն noun (home of ants and termites)
- մրջնոց noun (home of ants and termites)
Aromanian
2 entries- furnicami noun (home of ants and termites)
- furnicar noun (home of ants and termites)
Asturian
1 entries- formigueru noun (home of ants and termites)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qarışqa yuvası noun (home of ants and termites)
Bashkir
1 entries- иләү noun (home of ants and termites)
Basque
1 entries- inurritegi noun (home of ants and termites)
Belarusian
1 entries- мура́шнік noun (home of ants and termites)
Bulgarian
1 entries- мраву́няк noun (home of ants and termites)
Burmese
1 entries- ခြတောင်ပို့ noun (home of ants and termites)
Buryat
2 entries- шоргоолзоной бута noun (home of ants and termites)
- шоргоолзоной үүр noun (home of ants and termites)
Catalan
2 entries- formiguer noun (home of ants and termites)
- termiter (termites) noun (home of ants and termites)
Cebuano
1 entries- bungtod noun (home of ants and termites)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蟻丘 /蚁丘 noun (home of ants and termites)
Classical Nahuatl
3 entries- tzīcatepētl noun (home of ants and termites)
- āzcapōtzalli noun (home of ants and termites)
- āzcaxālli noun (home of ants and termites)
Czech
1 entries- mraveniště noun (home of ants and termites)
Danish
1 entries- myretue noun (home of ants and termites)
Dutch
2 entries- mierenhoop noun (home of ants and termites)
- mierennest noun (home of ants and termites)
Erzya
2 entries- коткудавкудо noun (home of ants and termites)
- коткудавпизэ noun (home of ants and termites)
Esperanto
1 entries- formikejo noun (home of ants and termites)
Estonian
2 entries- sipelgapesa noun (home of ants and termites)
- termiidipesa noun (home of ants and termites)
Finnish
1 entries- muurahaiskeko noun (home of ants and termites)
French
2 entries- fourmilière noun (home of ants and termites)
- termitière (termites) noun (home of ants and termites)
Friulian
1 entries- furmiâr noun (home of ants and termites)
Galician
1 entries- formigueiro noun (home of ants and termites)
Georgian
1 entries- ჭიანჭველების ბუდე noun (home of ants and termites)
German
2 entries- Ameisenhaufen noun (home of ants and termites)
- Ameisenhügel noun (home of ants and termites)
Greek
1 entries- μυρμηγκοφωλιά noun (home of ants and termites)
Highland Puebla Nahuatl
1 entries- a̱scata̱l noun (home of ants and termites)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- lungsod noun (home of ants and termites)
Hindi
1 entries- वल्मीक noun (home of ants and termites)
Hungarian
1 entries- hangyaboly noun (home of ants and termites)
Icelandic
1 entries- mauraþúfa noun (home of ants and termites)
Interlingua
1 entries- formicario noun (home of ants and termites)
Irish
1 entries- nead seangán noun (home of ants and termites)
Italian
1 entries- formicaio noun (home of ants and termites)
Japanese
3 entries- アリの巣 noun (home of ants and termites)
- 蟻の塔 noun (home of ants and termites)
- 蟻塚 noun (home of ants and termites)
Kalmyk
1 entries- шорһлҗна үр noun (home of ants and termites)
Kashubian
1 entries- mrowiszcze noun (home of ants and termites)
Kazakh
1 entries- илеу noun (home of ants and termites)
Korean
4 entries- 개미둑 noun (home of ants and termites)
- 개미집 noun (home of ants and termites)
- 개미총 noun (home of ants and termites)
- 개미탑 noun (home of ants and termites)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- кумурска уясы noun (home of ants and termites)
Lao
1 entries- ຂວຍມົດ noun (home of ants and termites)
Latin
2 entries- formicarium noun (home of ants and termites)
- formicarum agmen noun (home of ants and termites)
Latvian
1 entries- skudru pūznis noun (home of ants and termites)
Lithuanian
1 entries- skruzdėlynas noun (home of ants and termites)
Macedonian
1 entries- мравјалник noun (home of ants and termites)
Malay
1 entries- busut noun (home of ants and termites)
Malayalam
2 entries- ചിതൽപുറ്റ് noun (home of ants and termites)
- പുറ്റ് noun (home of ants and termites)
Maltese
1 entries- bejta tan-nemel noun (home of ants and termites)
Marathi
1 entries- वारूळ noun (home of ants and termites)
Mongolian
1 entries- шоргоолжны үүр noun (home of ants and termites)
Navajo
2 entries- wóláchííʼ bighan noun (home of ants and termites)
- wólázhiní bighan noun (home of ants and termites)
Norman
1 entries- freunmionniéthe noun (home of ants and termites)
Northern Puebla Nahuatl
1 entries- ascapotzali noun (home of ants and termites)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- maurtue noun (home of ants and termites)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- maurtue noun (home of ants and termites)
- maurtuve noun (home of ants and termites)
Old English
1 entries- ǣmethyll noun (home of ants and termites)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قرنجهلق noun (home of ants and termites)
Persian
1 entries- آشیان مور noun (home of ants and termites)
Polish
1 entries- mrowisko noun (home of ants and termites)
Portuguese
2 entries- cupinzeiro (termites) noun (home of ants and termites)
- formigueiro noun (home of ants and termites)
Quechua
1 entries- sik'imira noun (home of ants and termites)
Romanian
2 entries- furnicar noun (home of ants and termites)
- mușuroi noun (home of ants and termites)
Russian
1 entries- мураве́йник noun (home of ants and termites)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- mràvinjāk noun (home of ants and termites)
- мра̀виња̄к noun (home of ants and termites)
Slovak
1 entries- mravenisko noun (home of ants and termites)
Slovene
1 entries- mravljišče noun (home of ants and termites)
Spanish
1 entries- hormiguero noun (home of ants and termites)
Swahili
2 entries- kichuguu noun (home of ants and termites)
- kingulima noun (home of ants and termites)
Swedish
1 entries- myrstack noun (home of ants and termites)
Tagalog
4 entries- bahay-anay noun (home of ants and termites)
- bahay-langgam noun (home of ants and termites)
- punso noun (home of ants and termites)
- pusyo noun (home of ants and termites)
Tajik
2 entries- мурчахона noun (home of ants and termites)
- мӯрчахона noun (home of ants and termites)
Tetelcingo-Nahuatl
2 entries- tetzicatlöli̱ noun (home of ants and termites)
- tzicatlöli̱ noun (home of ants and termites)
Thai
1 entries- รังมด noun (home of ants and termites)
Turkish
1 entries- karınca yuvası noun (home of ants and termites)
Tyap
1 entries- a̱gban noun (home of ants and termites)
Ukrainian
1 entries- мура́шник noun (home of ants and termites)
Unami
1 entries- èlikwsikaon noun (home of ants and termites)
Uzbek
1 entries- chumoli uyasi noun (home of ants and termites)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tổ kiến noun (home of ants and termites)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- punsu noun (home of ants and termites)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The curious girl yanked out a spike of wheat and was taking out each grain one by one, letting them fall on the earth, so as to observe how the ants were taking them to the anthill.
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Why are there so many ants at the entrance to the house? Do they have an anthill nearby?
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The centipede climbed the towering anthill.
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