Tom lit a firecracker.
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Firecracker
//ˈfaɪəˌkɹækə//
Synonyms for "firecracker" (40 found)
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Related words (20)
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7 entriesTranslations
70 translations across 39 languages.
Assamese
1 entries- ফটকা noun (a firework)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- zırpaket noun (a firework)
Bulgarian
2 entries- пира́тка noun (a firework)
- фишек noun (a firework)
Catalan
1 entries- petard noun (a firework)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 炮仗 noun (a firework)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 爆竹 noun (a firework)
- 鞭炮 noun (a firework)
Czech
1 entries- petarda noun (a firework)
Dutch
1 entries- rotje noun (a firework)
Esperanto
1 entries- petardo noun (a firework)
Eyak
1 entries- LAdlahG noun (a firework)
Finnish
2 entries- papattimatto noun (a firework)
- sähikäinen noun (a firework)
French
4 entries- coléreuse noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
- coléreux noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
- pétard noun (a firework)
- pétard noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
German
4 entries- Böller noun (a firework)
- Feuerwerkskörper noun (a firework)
- Hitzkopf noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
- Knaller noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
Greek
2 entries- κροτίδα noun (a firework)
- πυροτέχνημα noun (a firework)
Hindi
1 entries- पटाका noun (a firework)
Hungarian
2 entries- petárda noun (a firework)
- tűzrőlpattant noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
Indonesian
2 entries- air mancur api noun (a firework)
- mercon noun (a firework)
Italian
3 entries- castagnola noun (a firework)
- mortaretto noun (a firework)
- petardo noun (a firework)
Japanese
2 entries- 爆竹 noun (a firework)
- 癇癪玉 noun (a firework)
Kapampangan
1 entries- pamakbung noun (a firework)
Khmer
1 entries- ផាវ noun (a firework)
Korean
2 entries- 불꽃 noun (a firework)
- 폭죽 noun (a firework)
Macedonian
1 entries- пета́рда noun (a firework)
Malay
1 entries- mercun noun (a firework)
Māori
1 entries- tiripapā noun (a firework)
Norwegian
1 entries- kinaputt noun (a firework)
Pohnpeian
1 entries- anapi noun (a firework)
Polish
2 entries- petarda noun (a firework)
- petarda noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
Portuguese
2 entries- bombinha noun (a firework)
- traque noun (a firework)
Romanian
2 entries- petardă noun (a firework)
- pocnitoare noun (a firework)
Russian
3 entries- пета́рда noun (a firework)
- фейерве́рк noun (a firework)
- хлопу́шка noun (a firework)
Spanish
4 entries- fiera noun (an energetic, unpredictable person)
- petardo noun (a firework)
- piola noun (a firework)
- triquitraque noun (a firework)
Swedish
1 entries- smällare noun (a firework)
Tagalog
4 entries- labintador noun (a firework)
- pakbong noun (a firework)
- paputok noun (a firework)
- rebentador noun (a firework)
Thai
1 entries- ประทัด noun (a firework)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཤོག་པག noun (a firework)
Turkish
1 entries- havai fişek noun (a firework)
Urdu
1 entries- پٹاخا noun (a firework)
Vietnamese
1 entries- pháo noun (a firework)
Sample sentences
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I think the big mistake in education is trying to teach children by using fear as the basic motivation: fear of failing an exam, fear of failing a grade and not staying with your class, etc. On the other hand, interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a Chinese factory explosion to a firecracker.
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She is a real firecracker!
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I thought the sound was a firecracker at first.
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