The street is paved with asphalt.
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Asphalt
//ˈæʃfɑlt//
Synonyms for "asphalt" (169 found)
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Closest matches (34)
Strong matches (51)
Related words (84)
Noun(4 words)
mineral saltmineral tallowmineral tarmineral waxmolybdenitemonaziteobsidianolivineozokeritepantilepaperparquetpavepavementpavestonepavingpaving stonepeatpebbleperlite
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phosphate rockphosphoruspitchplasterboardplywoodpumicepyritepyritespyroxenequartzrealgarred clayrhodoniteroad metalrock crystalrocksroofageroofingroofing papersaltseleniteseleniumshakesheathing boardsheetingshinglesideritesidingsilicasilicatesiliconslatesparspinelspodumenespun glassstonesulfurtalctalcumtartar papertarmacadamtarviatelluriumthatchtiletilestonetilingveneerwainscotingwallboardwallingwallpaperwashboardweatherboardwollastonitewoodwulfenitezeolite
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5 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesat location
2 entriesderived
15 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
6 entriesmade of
1 entriesmanner of
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33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
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2 entriesTranslations
164 translations across 73 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἄσφαλτος noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Arabic
4 entries- أَسْفَلْت noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- أَسْفَلْت noun (asphalt concrete)
- زفت noun (asphalt concrete)
- زِفْت noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Armenian
4 entries- ասֆալտ noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- ասֆալտ noun (asphalt concrete)
- ասֆալտապատել verb (to pave with asphalt)
- ասֆալտել verb (to pave with asphalt)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Basque
1 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Belarusian
4 entries- асва́льт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асва́льт noun (asphalt concrete)
- асфа́льт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асфа́льт noun (asphalt concrete)
Bengali
1 entries- আস্ফাল্ট noun (asphalt concrete)
Bulgarian
2 entries- асфа́лт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асфа́лт noun (asphalt concrete)
Catalan
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfaltar verb (to pave with asphalt)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- قیرتاو noun (asphalt concrete)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 蠟青 /蜡青 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 柏油 noun (asphalt concrete)
- 瀝青 /沥青 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- 瀝青混凝土 /沥青混凝土 noun (asphalt concrete)
- 上瀝青 /上沥青 verb (to pave with asphalt)
Czech
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Danish
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltere verb (to pave with asphalt)
Dutch
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfalteren verb (to pave with asphalt)
Esperanto
1 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Estonian
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Faroese
1 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Finnish
3 entries- asfaltti noun (asphalt concrete)
- bitumi noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfaltoida verb (to pave with asphalt)
French
2 entries- asphalte noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asphalte noun (asphalt concrete)
Georgian
2 entries- ასფალტი noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- ასფალტი noun (asphalt concrete)
German
3 entries- Asphalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- Asphalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asphaltieren verb (to pave with asphalt)
Greek
3 entries- άσφαλτος noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- άσφαλτος noun (asphalt concrete)
- ασφαλτοστρώνω verb (to pave with asphalt)
Hebrew
2 entries- אַסְפַלְט noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- אַסְפַלְט noun (asphalt concrete)
Hindi
2 entries- ऐस्फ़ाल्ट noun (asphalt concrete)
- डामर noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Hungarian
2 entries- aszfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- aszfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Icelandic
2 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- malbik noun (asphalt concrete)
Ido
2 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfaltizar verb (to pave with asphalt)
Indonesian
1 entries- aspal noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- آسْفالْت noun (asphalt concrete)
Irish
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfalt a chur ar verb (to pave with asphalt)
Italian
4 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalto noun (asphalt concrete)
- bitume noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfaltare verb (to pave with asphalt)
Japanese
3 entries- アスファルト noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- アスファルト noun (asphalt concrete)
- 瀝青 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Kannada
1 entries- ಕಲ್ಲರಗು noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Kazakh
1 entries- асфальт noun (asphalt concrete)
Korean
4 entries- 력청 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- 아스팔트 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- 아스팔트 noun (asphalt concrete)
- 역청 noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- асфальт noun (asphalt concrete)
Latin
2 entries- asphaltum noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- bitūmen noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Latvian
2 entries- asfalts noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalts noun (asphalt concrete)
Lithuanian
2 entries- asfaltas noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfaltas noun (asphalt concrete)
Macedonian
2 entries- асфалт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асфалт noun (asphalt concrete)
Marathi
1 entries- डांबर noun (asphalt concrete)
Mongolian
3 entries- асфальт noun (asphalt concrete)
- асфальтдах verb (to pave with asphalt)
- барагшиндах verb (to pave with asphalt)
Nahuatl
1 entries- chiapopotl noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltere verb (to pave with asphalt)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltere verb (to pave with asphalt)
Old English
2 entries- eorþteoru noun (asphalt concrete)
- eorþtyrewa noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- آسفالت noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- آسفالت noun (asphalt concrete)
- قطران noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Pashto
1 entries- اسفالټ noun (asphalt concrete)
Polish
4 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltować verb (to pave with asphalt)
- wyasfaltować verb (to pave with asphalt)
Portuguese
3 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalto noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltar verb (to pave with asphalt)
Romanian
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Russian
4 entries- асфа́льт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асфа́льт noun (asphalt concrete)
- асфальтобето́н noun (asphalt concrete)
- асфальти́ровать verb (to pave with asphalt)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- àsfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- àsfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- а̀сфалт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- а̀сфалт noun (asphalt concrete)
Sicilian
1 entries- asfartu noun (asphalt concrete)
Slovak
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Slovene
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Spanish
4 entries- asfalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- chapapote noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- chapopote noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- garujo bituminoso noun (asphalt concrete)
Swedish
3 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
- asfaltera verb (to pave with asphalt)
Tagalog
2 entries- aspalto noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- aspalto noun (asphalt concrete)
Tajik
1 entries- асфалт noun (asphalt concrete)
Tatar
1 entries- асфальт noun (asphalt concrete)
Thai
2 entries- ยางมะตอย noun (asphalt concrete)
- แอสฟัลต์ noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
Turkish
2 entries- asfalt noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Turkmen
1 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Tuvan
1 entries- асфальтылаар verb (to pave with asphalt)
Ukrainian
3 entries- асфа́льт noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- асфа́льт noun (asphalt concrete)
- асфальтува́ти verb (to pave with asphalt)
Urdu
1 entries- اَسْفالْٹ noun (asphalt concrete)
Uzbek
1 entries- asfalt noun (asphalt concrete)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nhựa đường noun (sticky, black and highly viscous liquid)
- nhựa đường noun (asphalt concrete)
Yakut
2 entries- аспааллаа verb (to pave with asphalt)
- асфаллаа verb (to pave with asphalt)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
They finally started to asphalt that road again. It was about time! You could only cycle zigzagging there if you didn't want your wheel to get buckled because of the holes in the road surface.
Source: tatoeba (397518)
Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, but where it's interesting, there is no asphalt.
Source: tatoeba (2110889)
The asphalt was softened by the heat.
Source: tatoeba (2255671)
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