People in this country make it a habit to bow when they meet.
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Bow
/bəʊ/
Synonyms for "bow" (358 found)
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Verb(9 words)
Noun(17 words)
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Noun(20 words)
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37 entriesactactionarmbendbuckle underchange postureconcessioncurvecurved shapedecorationdeformationflexfrontgesticulategesture
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15 entriesCollocations
10 entriesarchery bowbow stringbow tiebrief bowdeep bowformal bowgift bowpolite bowrespectful bowship bow
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 58 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- strykstok noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Arabic
2 entries- عصاية noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- قَوْس noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Asturian
1 entries- arcu noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Bavarian German
1 entries- Bogn noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Belarusian
2 entries- смык noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- смычо́к noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Breton
1 entries- gwareg noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Bulgarian
1 entries- лък noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Catalan
1 entries- arc noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 弦樂器的弓 /弦乐器的弓 noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- 琴弓 noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Czech
1 entries- smyčec noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Danish
1 entries- bue noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Dutch
1 entries- strijkstok noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Esperanto
1 entries- arĉo noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Finnish
1 entries- jousi noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
French
1 entries- archet noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
German
1 entries- Bogen noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Greek
1 entries- δοξάρι noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Greenlandic
1 entries- tagiut noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Hebrew
1 entries- קֶשֶׁת noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Hungarian
1 entries- vonó noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Icelandic
1 entries- bogi noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Ido
1 entries- arketo noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Irish
1 entries- bogha noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Italian
2 entries- archetto noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- arco noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Japanese
1 entries- 弓 noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Kazakh
2 entries- ысқы noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- қияқ noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Khmer
1 entries- ឆាក noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Korean
1 entries- 활 noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- смычок noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Latvian
1 entries- lociņš noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Lithuanian
2 entries- smičius noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- strykas noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Macedonian
1 entries- гудало noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Manx
1 entries- bow noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Māori
2 entries- kōpere noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- whana noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Norman
1 entries- artchet noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bue noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- boge noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Ojibwe
1 entries- naazhaabike'iganaak noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- زخمه noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Persian
1 entries- آرشِه noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Polish
1 entries- smyczek noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Portuguese
1 entries- arco noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Romanian
1 entries- arcuș noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Russian
1 entries- смычо́к noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- bogha noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- slatag noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gùdalo noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
- гу̀дало noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Slovak
1 entries- sláčik noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Slovene
1 entries- lok noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Spanish
1 entries- arco noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Swedish
1 entries- stråke noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Thai
1 entries- คันชัก noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Turkish
1 entries- yay noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Ukrainian
1 entries- смичо́к noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Uzbek
1 entries- kamoncha noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vĩ noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Walloon
1 entries- airçon noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Welsh
1 entries- bwa noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
West-Frisian
1 entries- strykstôk noun (rod used for playing stringed instruments)
Sample sentences
38 total sentences available.
I bow to your superior judgement.
Source: tatoeba (70350)
I was forced to make a bow.
Source: tatoeba (253223)
I bow to the boss in greeting, and he returns my bow with a nod.
Source: tatoeba (258723)
Showing 4 of 38 available sentences.