Can

/ˈkæn/

Synonyms for "can" (278 found)

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Closest matches (56)

Verb(1 words)

Noun(16 words)

tin canapricot preservearse ass backside bathroom behindbeing ablebottom bum buns butt buttockscan buoycanful canneries

arse ass ax backhouse backside bag banish barrel basement basket bastille bathroom battleship battlewagonbe ablebe permittedbe up tobeam bedpan behind

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bootboot outbottle bounce boxbox upbreak brig bucket bum bump burden bust butt calaboosecan docapital shipcapsule carton

Strong matches (83)

casanova case cashier cask chamberchamber potchaser cheek cheekschemical closetchemical toiletchokey clink closet collegecomfort stationcommode convenience cooler coop

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crapper cratecut itcut the mustarddefrock degrade demote deplume depose deprive derriere destroyer disbar discharge disemploy dish dismiss displace displumedo updropdrum outduffearth closetencase encyst expel fanny fill fire freezer freight fundament furloughgive the axgive the gatehack ithamperhave permissionhead heapheap uphind endhoosegow

Noun(11 words)

commode crapper derriere fannyfood canfood containerfundamenthind endhindquartersis able tojail

Verb(8 words)

dismiss displace dump fireforce outgive noticegive the axegive the sack

Related words (139)

jar jerry john johnnyjohnny housejordan jug keep keister kickkick outkick upstairslade lady-killer latrine lavatorylay offlet golet outload

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lockup loomake itmake redundantmake the grademasher mass may necessary outhouse packpack awaypackage parcel pen penitentiarypension offphilander philanderer pilepiss potpocket pokeypossess authoritypot potty potty-chairpowder roomprat preserve prison privyput upquodread out ofreceptacle reformatory release remove replacerest roomretire rusty-dusty sackseparate forciblyship slammer stack stern stir stockade stool store stow strip superannuate surplus suspend tailtake chargetank terminate thronethunder mugtin toilettoilet roomtuchisturn offturn outtush tushy unfrock urinal washroomwater closetwc womanizer

Noun(29 words)

john keister lav lavatorymetal cannates pen posterior pot potty pratpreserve errorprison privy rearrear endrump seat slammer stern

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stool tailtail endthrone tin tins toilet tooshie tush

Verb(12 words)

junklay offlet gomake silentput upscrapsend awaystiflestop talkingterminate tin tinned

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

18 entries

abilitybody partbuoy capability container containerful dismissal facilityfood processinginstitution keepplumbing fixturepreservation preserve receptacle remove

Showing 16 of 18 words.

More specific

14 entries

beverage cancanned fruitcanned vegetablescompetencedetention centerfederal prisonfiringfruit canlayoff penitentiary skillsoup canstate prisonvegetable can

Collocations

9 entries

aluminum canbeer cancanned foodscanned goodscannery industrycanning processmetal cansoda cantin can

Inflections

3 entries

canning cans could

Derivations

3 entries

canned cannery canning

Translations

95 translations across 63 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

kanaçe noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Arabic

3 entries

تنكة noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
صَفِيحَة noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
علبة noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Aragonese

4 entries

cachuelo noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
caxoloto noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
caxot noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
cozero noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Armenian

1 entries

անագ noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Assamese

1 entries

টেমা noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Asturian

2 entries

bote noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
lata noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Bulgarian

1 entries

тенекиена кутия noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Catalan

1 entries

llauna noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Central Kurdish

2 entries

تەنەکە noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
قوتو noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᏔᎷᎩᏍᎩ noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

罐頭 /罐头 noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Czech

1 entries

plechovka noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Danish

1 entries

dåse noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Dutch

1 entries

kan noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Esperanto

1 entries

ladskatolo noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Estonian

2 entries

karp noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
purk noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Faroese

1 entries

blikk noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Finnish

2 entries

purkki noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
tölkki noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

French

2 entries

bidon noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
canette noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Galician

4 entries

cacharela noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
canada noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
tango noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
tanque noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Georgian

2 entries

თუნუქის noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
კალის noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

German

2 entries

Blechdose noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
Kanister noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Greek

1 entries

κουτάκι noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Hebrew

1 entries

פַּחִית noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Hungarian

1 entries

doboz noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Icelandic

1 entries

dós noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Indonesian

1 entries

kaleng noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Italian

1 entries

lattina noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Japanese

1 entries

缶 noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Khmer

2 entries

កំប៉ង់ noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
កំប៉ុង noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Kikuyu

1 entries

mũkebe noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Korean

3 entries

깡통 noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
캔 noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
통조림 noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Lao

1 entries

ກະປ່ອງ noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Latvian

1 entries

kārba noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Luxembourgish

3 entries

Biddong noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
Béchs noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
Dous noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Macedonian

1 entries

лименка noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Malay

3 entries

kaleng noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
kupi noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
tin noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Marathi

1 entries

कॅन noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Mongolian

2 entries

лааз noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
цагаан тугалга noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Māori

3 entries

kēna noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
kēne noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
tini noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Nahuatl

1 entries

tepoztecontli noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Navajo

1 entries

yadiizíní noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Norman

1 entries

canne noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

boks noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
kanne noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

boks noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
kanne noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Persian

1 entries

قوطی noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Polish

3 entries

bańka noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
kanister noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
puszka noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Portuguese

1 entries

lata noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Romanian

1 entries

doză noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Russian

2 entries

бидо́н noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
жбан noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

cana noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Slovene

1 entries

pločevinka noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Spanish

1 entries

lata noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Swahili

1 entries

kopo noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Swedish

1 entries

burk noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Tamil

1 entries

கன்னல் noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Thai

1 entries

กระป๋อง noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Tibetan

1 entries

ལྕགས་ཊིན་ noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Turkish

2 entries

kutu noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
teneke kutu noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Vietnamese

1 entries

lon noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Welsh

1 entries

can noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Yiddish

1 entries

קענדל noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Zhuang

2 entries

guenqdaeuz noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)
gvandouz noun (a more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids)

Sample sentences

62 total sentences available.

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Sometimes he can be a strange guy.

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I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.

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One can always find time.

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I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.

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