Take a look at this beautiful embroidery made with great effort.
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Embroidery
//ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəɹi//
Synonyms for "embroidery" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (28)
Related word relations
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5 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
5 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
95 translations across 55 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَطْرِيز noun (ornamentation)
Breton
1 entries- broderezh noun (ornamentation)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бродерия noun (ornamentation)
- бродерия noun (fabric)
Catalan
1 entries- brodat noun (ornamentation)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 刺繡 /刺绣 noun (ornamentation)
- 刺繡品 /刺绣品 noun (fabric)
Cornish
1 entries- brosweyth noun (ornamentation)
Corsican
1 entries- frisgiuleghji noun (ornamentation)
Czech
1 entries- výšivka noun (ornamentation)
Danish
2 entries- broderi noun (ornamentation)
- udsmykning noun (elaboration of an account with details)
Dutch
3 entries- borduren noun (ornamentation)
- borduurwerk noun (fabric)
- borduurwerk noun (fabric)
Esperanto
1 entries- brodaĵo noun (ornamentation)
Finnish
4 entries- kirjailu noun (ornamentation)
- kirjonta noun (ornamentation)
- kirjontatyö noun (fabric)
- koristeompelu noun (ornamentation)
French
4 entries- broderie noun (ornamentation)
- broderie noun (fabric)
- broderie noun (elaboration of an account with details)
- enjolivement noun (elaboration of an account with details)
German
4 entries- Ausschmückung noun (elaboration of an account with details)
- Sticken noun (ornamentation)
- Stickerei noun (ornamentation)
- Stickerei noun (fabric)
Greek
2 entries- κέντημα noun (ornamentation)
- κέντημα noun (fabric)
Gujarati
1 entries- કશીદો noun (ornamentation)
Hindi
1 entries- चिक काढना noun (ornamentation)
Hungarian
4 entries- hímzés noun (ornamentation)
- hímzés noun (fabric)
- kiszínezés noun (elaboration of an account with details)
- kézimunka noun (ornamentation)
Indonesian
2 entries- bordir noun (ornamentation)
- sulam noun (ornamentation)
Ingrian
1 entries- mišura noun (ornamentation)
Irish
2 entries- bróidnéireacht noun (ornamentation)
- bróidnéireacht noun (fabric)
Italian
1 entries- ricamo noun (ornamentation)
Japanese
2 entries- エンブロイダリー noun (ornamentation)
- 刺繍 noun (ornamentation)
Kazakh
1 entries- кесте noun (ornamentation)
Korean
1 entries- 자수 noun (ornamentation)
Latin
1 entries- acupictura noun (ornamentation)
Macedonian
3 entries- вез noun (ornamentation)
- вез noun (fabric)
- везење noun (ornamentation)
Malay
1 entries- tekat noun (ornamentation)
Mongolian
1 entries- хэтрүүлэг noun (ornamentation)
Norman
2 entries- brod'die noun (ornamentation)
- brod'die noun (fabric)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- nexş noun (ornamentation)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- broderi noun (ornamentation)
- broderi noun (fabric)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- broderi noun (ornamentation)
- broderi noun (fabric)
Occitan
1 entries- brodariá noun (ornamentation)
Old English
1 entries- blēocræft noun (ornamentation)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- نقش noun (ornamentation)
Polish
1 entries- haft noun (ornamentation)
Portuguese
2 entries- bordado noun (ornamentation)
- bordado noun (fabric)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕਢਾਈ noun (ornamentation)
Romanian
1 entries- broderie noun (ornamentation)
Russian
3 entries- вы́шивка noun (fabric)
- вышива́ние noun (ornamentation)
- вышива́ние noun (fabric)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- gréis noun (ornamentation)
- gréis noun (fabric)
- obair-ghréise noun (ornamentation)
- obair-ghréise noun (fabric)
Sicilian
1 entries- raccamu noun (ornamentation)
Slovak
1 entries- výšivka noun (ornamentation)
Spanish
2 entries- bordado noun (ornamentation)
- bordadura noun (ornamentation)
Swedish
1 entries- broderi noun (ornamentation)
Tagalog
1 entries- burdá noun (ornamentation)
Thai
1 entries- งานเย็บปักถักร้อย noun (ornamentation)
Turkish
1 entries- nakış noun (ornamentation)
Ukrainian
4 entries- вишива́ння noun (ornamentation)
- вишивання noun (fabric)
- вишивка noun (ornamentation)
- вишивка noun (fabric)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đồ thêu noun (ornamentation)
Welsh
1 entries- brodwaith noun (ornamentation)
Wolof
1 entries- dawume noun (ornamentation)
Yakan
1 entries- buldaw noun (ornamentation)
Yiddish
1 entries- אויסנייעכץ noun (ornamentation)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
This is an authentic Suzhou embroidery.
Source: tatoeba (731019)
Traditional embroidery requires a lot of patience.
Source: tatoeba (8580162)
Often, a well-embroidered old suit is prettier than a new one without embroidery.
Source: tatoeba (10817059)
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