Tom slid down the banister.
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Banister
//ˈbænɪstɚ//
Synonyms for "banister" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
63 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- دَرَابْزُون noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- دَرَبْزين noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Bulgarian
1 entries- парапет noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Catalan
2 entries- arrambador noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- balustre noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 欄杆 noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Czech
2 entries- sloupek zábradlí noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- zábradlí noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Dutch
2 entries- baluster noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- leuning noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Finnish
4 entries- kaide noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- kaidepinna noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- kaidepuu noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- porraskaide noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
French
2 entries- balustre noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- rampe noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
German
2 entries- Geländer noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- Geländerpfosten noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
Greek
2 entries- κάγκελο noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- κιγκλίδωμα noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Hebrew
1 entries- מעקה noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Hungarian
4 entries- baluszter noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- korlátbáb noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- lépcsőkorlát noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- mellvédbáb noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
Icelandic
4 entries- brjóstriðssúla noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- handrið noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- pílári í handriði noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- rimill noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
Irish
3 entries- banastar noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- banastar noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- runga noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
Italian
1 entries- ringhiera noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Japanese
3 entries- 手すり noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- 手摺 noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- 欄干 noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Korean
2 entries- 난간 noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- 란간 noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Trapegelänner noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Macedonian
2 entries- геле́ндер noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- парапе́т noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Norwegian
1 entries- gelender noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- پرمقلق noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Persian
1 entries- طارمی noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Wolm noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Polish
1 entries- poręcz noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Portuguese
2 entries- balaústre noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- corrimão noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Russian
3 entries- баля́сина noun (one of the vertical supports of a handrail)
- пери́ла noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- по́ручень noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gelender noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- rukohvat noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Spanish
3 entries- barandal noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- barandilla noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- pasamano noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Swedish
1 entries- trappräcke noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Tibetan
1 entries- ལག་འཇུ noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Turkish
2 entries- küpeşte noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
- tırabzan noun (the handrail on the side of a staircase)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tom kept his hand on the banister as he walked down the stairs.
Source: tatoeba (3038985)
When I was a child, I used to like sliding down the staircase banister.
Source: tatoeba (3615863)
Tom leaned over the banister.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.