You can find the Big Dipper easily.
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Dipper
//ˈdɪpɚ//
Synonyms for "dipper" (22 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Strong matches (6)
Noun(3 words)
Related words (11)
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6 entriesRelated terms
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24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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1 entrieshas context
7 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
Translations
55 translations across 33 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κύαθος noun (vessel)
Armenian
1 entries- ջրաճնճղուկ noun (bird)
Bikol Central
1 entries- tabo noun (vessel)
Bulgarian
2 entries- во́ден кос noun (bird)
- черпа́к noun (vessel)
Catalan
2 entries- cassó noun (vessel)
- merla d'aigua noun (bird)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 勺 noun (vessel)
- 舀子 noun (vessel)
Czech
1 entries- skorec noun (bird)
Dutch
2 entries- pollepel noun (vessel)
- waterspreeuw noun (bird)
Finnish
2 entries- kauha noun (vessel)
- koskikara noun (bird)
French
1 entries- louche noun (vessel)
German
3 entries- Kelle noun (vessel)
- Schöpflöffel noun (vessel)
- Wasseramsel noun (bird)
Indonesian
2 entries- gayung noun (vessel)
- sauk noun (vessel)
Irish
1 entries- gabha dubh noun (bird)
Italian
2 entries- merlo acquaiolo noun (bird)
- mestolo noun (vessel)
Latin
1 entries- trulla noun (vessel)
Macedonian
1 entries- кос noun (bird)
Manado Malay
1 entries- falo-falo noun (vessel)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schapkje noun (vessel)
Polish
2 entries- chochla noun (vessel)
- pluszcz noun (bird)
Portuguese
3 entries- melro-aquático noun (bird)
- melro-d'água noun (bird)
- melro-peixeiro noun (bird)
Romanian
1 entries- căuș noun (vessel)
Russian
4 entries- ковш noun (vessel)
- оля́пка noun (bird)
- поло́вник noun (vessel)
- черпа́к noun (vessel)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bog an lochain noun (bird)
- bogachan noun (bird)
- gobha-uisge noun (bird)
- gobhachan noun (bird)
Shor
1 entries- омаш noun (vessel)
Spanish
2 entries- cucharón noun (vessel)
- mirlo acuático noun (bird)
Swahili
1 entries- dila noun (vessel)
Swedish
1 entries- strömstare noun (bird)
Tagalog
1 entries- tabo noun (vessel)
Turkish
1 entries- kepçe noun (vessel)
Tày
1 entries- buôi noun (vessel)
Venetan
2 entries- mescol noun (vessel)
- méscoƚo noun (vessel)
Vietnamese
1 entries- gáo noun (vessel)
Welsh
3 entries- bronwen y dŵr noun (bird)
- trochwr noun (bird)
- trochwr noun (Baptist, Dunker)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
One constellation that most people know is the Big Dipper.
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I know nothing about constellations. I can only recognize Orion and Cassiopeia. Oh, and the Big Dipper, too.
Source: tatoeba (1527895)
Tom pointed at the Big Dipper.
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