Dune

//djuːn//

Synonyms for "dune" (37 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (8)

sand dune anthill bank barrow brae butte cock

Noun(1 words)

sand dune

Strong matches (11)

down drift drumlin embankment fell foothills haycock haymow hayrick haystack heap

Related words (18)

hill hillock hummock knob knoll molehill monticle monticule moor mound mow pile pyramid rick snowdrift stack swell

Noun(1 words)

sand-dune

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

1 entries

ridge

Antonyms

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dyke

Synonyms

1 entries

sand dune

Related terms

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duned

dbpedia genre

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soft science fiction

derived

24 entries

Duneverse Pajaro Dunes antidune dunal dune buggy dune coon dune cricket dunefield dunefoot duneland duneless dunelet dunelike dunesand dunescape dunetop

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etymologically related_to

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down

has context

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geomorphology

is a

4 entries

book famous book hill ridge

related to

3 entries

duned hill sand

Translations

102 translations across 68 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

dunë noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Arabic

2 entries

غُرْد noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
كَثِيب noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Armenian

2 entries

ավազաթումբ noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
դյուն noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

barxan noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
dyun noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Basque

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Belarusian

2 entries

барха́н noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
дзю́на noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Bulgarian

1 entries

дю́на noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Catalan

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

沙丘 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

沙丘 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Czech

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Danish

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klit noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Dutch

1 entries

duin noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Esperanto

1 entries

duno noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Estonian

3 entries

düün noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
luide noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
tuiskliivahang noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Faroese

2 entries

sandfonn noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
sandheyggjur noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Finnish

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dyyni noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

French

1 entries

dune noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Galician

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Georgian

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დიუნა noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

German

2 entries

Düne noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
Sanddüne noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Greek

2 entries

αμμόλοφος noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
θίνα noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Gujarati

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ઢૂવો noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Hindi

2 entries

टिब्बा noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
बालुकूट noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Hungarian

2 entries

bucka noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
dűne noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Icelandic

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sandhóll noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Ido

1 entries

duno noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Indonesian

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gumuk noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Irish

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dumhach noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Italian

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duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Japanese

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砂丘 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Kazakh

3 entries

барқан noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
дөң noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
құм төбе noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Khmer

3 entries

ខ្សាច់នារ noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
ផ្នូក noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
ផ្នូរខ្សាច់ noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Korean

4 entries

둔 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
둔덕 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
둔치 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
모래톱 noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

бархан noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Lao

2 entries

ເນີນຊາຍ noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
ແຊນຫາດ noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Latvian

1 entries

kāpa noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Lithuanian

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kopa noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Livonian

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kȭnka noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Macedonian

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дина noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Malay

1 entries

gumuk noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Mongolian

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манх noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
манхан noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Māori

3 entries

refers to dunes noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
taipū noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
tāhuahua noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Norman

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mielle noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Norwegian

1 entries

dyne noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Pannonian Rusyn

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дина noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Pashto

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برهانه noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Persian

2 entries

تلماسه noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
ماهور noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Plautdietsch

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Sauntdien noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Polish

2 entries

diuna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
wydma noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Portuguese

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Romanian

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dună noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Russian

2 entries

барха́н noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
дю́на noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

díne noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
ди́не noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Slovak

1 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Slovene

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sipina noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Spanish

3 entries

duna noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
médano noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
mégano noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Swahili

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tuta la mchanga noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Swedish

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dyn noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Tajik

2 entries

моҳур noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
хомаи рег noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Thai

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เนินทราย noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Tibetan

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བྱེ་རི noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Turkish

1 entries

kumul noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Turkmen

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aňňat noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Ukrainian

2 entries

барха́н noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
дю́на noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Uyghur

2 entries

بارخان noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
قۇم بارخىنى noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Uzbek

2 entries

barxan noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
qumtepa noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Vietnamese

2 entries

cồn cát noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)
đụn cát noun (a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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We walked on the dune.

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From the tall dune I could see over the whole island.

Source: tatoeba (1184561)

From the high dune, I could see the whole island.

Source: tatoeba (1185357)

From the high dune, I had a view of the whole island.

Source: tatoeba (1185359)

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