If you don't have anything to do, look at the ceiling of your room.
Source: tatoeba (1894)
Ceiling
//ˈsiːlɪŋ//
Synonyms for "ceiling" (194 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
companioncompassconfineconspicuityconspicuousnessconsumer price indexcost-of-living indexcrosswindcrowncrystal-clearnesscutoffcutoff pointdeadlinedefinitenessdefinitiondelimitationdemand curvedescentdeterminantdistinctness
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division lineeaveselevationeminenceempty spaceendend of burningevidenceevidentnessexaltationextremeextremityfavorable windfinishflightfloorfloor pricefogfrontfrontierhauteurhead windhedgeheightheighthhigh visibilityhigh water markhigh-pressure areahigh-water markhighest degreehighnessholehousetopignitionimpactinflationinflationary spiralinterface
Related words (97)
ionospherejetstreamlanternlaunchlift-offlimenlimitlimitationlimiting factorlineline of demarcationloftinesslow visibilitylow-pressure arealow-water marklower limitmanifestnessmarchmarkmaximum
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metene plus ultranth degreeobviousnessovercastoverheadpartspatentnesspeakpenthousepercipiperpendicular distancepinnacleplafondplainnesspocketprice ceilingprice indexprice levelprominenceridgepolerising pricesrocket launchingroofroof gardenroof-deckroofageroofingroofpolerooftoprooftreeroughnessseeingshingleshinglesshipshootshotskylightslatessoupspacestartstarting linestarting pointstaturestratospheresublimitysubstratospheresummittail windtallnesstarget datetermterminal dateterminusthe wholethresholdtilestime allotmenttoptop pricetoploftinesstrajectorytropopausetropospheretroughturbulenceupper limitutmostutmost extentuttermostvelocity peakvisibilityvisibility unlimitedvisibility zero
Noun(1 words)
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4 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesat location
6 entriescapable of
3 entriesdefined as
3 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
derived from
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
4 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
7 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesused for
11 entriesTranslations
169 translations across 102 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
Albanian
2 entries- lëpozë noun (upper limit of room)
- tavan noun (upper limit of room)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀροφή noun (upper limit of room)
Arabic
3 entries- سقف noun (upper limit of room)
- سَقْف noun (upper limit of room)
- سَقْف noun (upper limit of room)
Armenian
2 entries- առաստաղ noun (upper limit of room)
- առիք noun (upper limit of room)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tavan noun (upper limit of room)
Bashkir
4 entries- түбәтаҡта noun (upper limit of room)
- түпә noun (upper limit of room)
- түшәм noun (upper limit of room)
- һайғаҡ noun (upper limit of room)
Basque
1 entries- sabai noun (upper limit of room)
Belarusian
1 entries- столь noun (upper limit of room)
Bengali
1 entries- ছাদ noun (upper limit of room)
Brunei Malay
1 entries- siling noun (upper limit of room)
Bulgarian
3 entries- го́рна гра́ница noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- тава́н noun (upper limit of room)
- тава́н noun (altitude)
Burmese
1 entries- မျက်နှာကြက် noun (upper limit of room)
Catalan
1 entries- sostre noun (upper limit of room)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏯᎦᏢ noun (upper limit of room)
Chinese
1 entries- 天篷 noun (upper limit of room)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 天花板 noun (upper limit of room)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 天棚 noun (upper limit of room)
- 天花板 noun (upper limit of room)
Chuvash
1 entries- путалӑх noun (upper limit of room)
Cornish
1 entries- nen noun (upper limit of room)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- tavan noun (upper limit of room)
Czech
2 entries- horní celá část noun (smallest integer)
- strop noun (upper limit of room)
Danish
1 entries- loft noun (upper limit of room)
Dari
1 entries- سَقْف noun (upper limit of room)
Dutch
2 entries- plafond noun (upper limit of room)
- zoldering noun (upper limit of room)
Esperanto
1 entries- plafono noun (upper limit of room)
Estonian
1 entries- lagi noun (upper limit of room)
Faroese
1 entries- loft noun (upper limit of room)
Finnish
4 entries- karneeraus noun (inner planking of a vessel)
- katto noun (upper limit of room)
- katto noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- lakikorkeus noun (altitude)
French
3 entries- partie entière par excès noun (smallest integer)
- plafond noun (upper limit of room)
- plafond noun (upper limit of an object or action)
Galician
2 entries- ceo noun (upper limit of room)
- teito noun (upper limit of room)
Georgian
1 entries- ჭერი noun (upper limit of room)
German
1 entries- Decke noun (upper limit of room)
Greek
4 entries- οροφή noun (upper limit of room)
- πλαφόν noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- ταβάνι noun (upper limit of room)
- υψόμετρο noun (altitude)
Gujarati
1 entries- છત noun (upper limit of room)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
Hausa
1 entries- silin noun (upper limit of room)
Hebrew
1 entries- תִּקְרָה noun (upper limit of room)
Hindi
1 entries- छत noun (upper limit of room)
Hungarian
3 entries- mennyezet noun (upper limit of room)
- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
- plafon noun (upper limit of an object or action)
Icelandic
1 entries- loft noun (upper limit of room)
Ido
1 entries- plafono noun (upper limit of room)
Indonesian
4 entries- langit-langit noun (upper limit of room)
- pagu noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
- plafon noun (upper limit of an object or action)
Ingrian
1 entries- laki noun (upper limit of room)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- سَقْف noun (upper limit of room)
Irish
1 entries- síleáil noun (upper limit of room)
Italian
1 entries- soffitto noun (upper limit of room)
Japanese
2 entries- 天井 noun (upper limit of room)
- 天井関数 noun (smallest integer)
Kazakh
2 entries- төбе noun (upper limit of room)
- шек noun (upper limit of room)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- tīuthùap noun (upper limit of room)
Khmer
2 entries- ពិតាន noun (upper limit of room)
- ពិតាន noun (altitude)
Korean
1 entries- 천장 noun (upper limit of room)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- потолок noun (upper limit of room)
- шып noun (upper limit of room)
Ladino
2 entries- taván noun (upper limit of room)
- techo noun (upper limit of room)
Lao
3 entries- ປະຕຸລາ noun (upper limit of room)
- ພິດານ noun (upper limit of room)
- ເພດານ noun (upper limit of room)
Latgalian
2 entries- grīsti noun (upper limit of room)
- viersejuo greida noun (upper limit of room)
Latin
1 entries- lacunar noun (upper limit of room)
Latvian
1 entries- griesti noun (upper limit of room)
Lithuanian
1 entries- lubos noun (upper limit of room)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- wjerch noun (upper limit of room)
Macedonian
1 entries- таван noun (upper limit of room)
Malay
1 entries- siling noun (upper limit of room)
Maltese
1 entries- saqaf noun (upper limit of room)
Marathi
1 entries- छत noun (upper limit of room)
Mongolian
2 entries- адар noun (upper limit of room)
- тааз noun (upper limit of room)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- arîk noun (upper limit of room)
- kaşxank noun (upper limit of room)
- seqf noun (upper limit of room)
Northern Sami
1 entries- rohpi noun (upper limit of room)
Norwegian
1 entries- tak noun (smallest integer)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- himling noun (upper limit of room)
- loft noun (upper limit of room)
- tak noun (upper limit of room)
Occitan
1 entries- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
Odia
1 entries- ଛାତ noun (upper limit of room)
Old Armenian
1 entries- ձեղուն noun (upper limit of room)
Pashto
1 entries- سقف noun (upper limit of room)
Phoenician
1 entries- 𐤌𐤎𐤐𐤍𐤕 noun (upper limit of room)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Bän noun (upper limit of room)
Polish
4 entries- pułap noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- pułap noun (altitude)
- strop noun (upper limit of room)
- sufit noun (upper limit of room)
Portuguese
2 entries- teto noun (upper limit of room)
- teto noun (altitude)
Romanian
2 entries- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
- tavan noun (upper limit of room)
Russian
3 entries- потоло́к noun (upper limit of room)
- потоло́к noun (altitude)
- потоло́к noun (smallest integer)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mullach noun (upper limit of room)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- plàfōn noun (upper limit of room)
- strȍp noun (upper limit of room)
- пла̀фо̄н noun (upper limit of room)
- стро̏п noun (upper limit of room)
Slovak
1 entries- strop noun (upper limit of room)
Slovene
1 entries- strop noun (upper limit of room)
Spanish
4 entries- cielo raso noun (upper limit of room)
- cielorraso noun (upper limit of room)
- plafón noun (upper limit of room)
- techo noun (upper limit of room)
Swahili
1 entries- dari noun (upper limit of room)
Swedish
4 entries- innertak noun (upper limit of room)
- tak noun (upper limit of room)
- tak noun (upper limit of an object or action)
- tak noun (smallest integer)
Tagalog
1 entries- kisame noun (upper limit of room)
Tajik
2 entries- сақф noun (upper limit of room)
- шифт noun (upper limit of room)
Tatar
1 entries- түшәм noun (upper limit of room)
Telugu
1 entries- లోకప్పు noun (upper limit of room)
Thai
1 entries- เพดาน noun (upper limit of room)
Turkish
1 entries- tavan noun (upper limit of room)
Turkmen
1 entries- potolok noun (upper limit of room)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сте́ля noun (upper limit of room)
Urdu
2 entries- سَقْف noun (upper limit of room)
- چَھت noun (upper limit of room)
Uyghur
2 entries- تورۇس noun (upper limit of room)
- شىپ noun (upper limit of room)
Uzbek
2 entries- potolok noun (upper limit of room)
- shift noun (upper limit of room)
Vietnamese
2 entries- trần noun (upper limit of room)
- trần nhà noun (upper limit of room)
Volapük
1 entries- nufed noun (upper limit of room)
Walloon
1 entries- plafon noun (upper limit of room)
Welsh
2 entries- nenfwd noun (upper limit of room)
- nenfydau noun (upper limit of room)
Yiddish
2 entries- סופֿיט noun (upper limit of room)
- סטעליע noun (upper limit of room)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
The lamp hung from the ceiling.
Source: tatoeba (29711)
So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.
Source: tatoeba (32292)
A fly can walk on the ceiling.
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