Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Source: tatoeba (1785920)
Germ
/d͡ʒɜːm/
Synonyms for "germ" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Noun(14 words)
bugcausecootiesdisease agentdisease causingdisease causing agentembryoembryosestuarine microbialhintinfectantinvadersmicroorganismmicroorganisms
Adjective(3 words)
Related words (64)
Noun(14 words)
Determiner(1 words)
more microbes
Adjective(4 words)
pathogenic bacteriumpathogenic microbepathogenic organismtiny organism
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
13 entriesamountanatomical structurebodily structurebody structurecomplex body partconceptideainspirationmicro-organismmicroorganismquantityseed structurestructure
More specific
8 entriesCollocations
5 entriesgerm cellgerm of an ideagerm theorygerm-free environmentgermination process
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
6 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رُشَيْم noun (mass of cells)
Belarusian
2 entries- заро́дак noun (mass of cells)
- эмбрыён noun (mass of cells)
Bulgarian
2 entries- ембрио́н noun (mass of cells)
- заро́диш noun (mass of cells)
Burmese
1 entries- မျိုး noun (mass of cells)
Catalan
1 entries- germen noun (mass of cells)
Czech
1 entries- zárodek noun (mass of cells)
Dutch
1 entries- kiem noun (mass of cells)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĝermo noun (mass of cells)
Finnish
1 entries- itiö noun (mass of cells)
French
1 entries- germe noun (mass of cells)
Galician
1 entries- xerme noun (mass of cells)
Georgian
2 entries- ემბრიონი noun (mass of cells)
- ჩანასახი noun (mass of cells)
German
1 entries- Keim noun (mass of cells)
Greek
1 entries- μικρόβιο noun (mass of cells)
Hindi
2 entries- कीटाणु noun (mass of cells)
- रोगाणु noun (mass of cells)
Hungarian
1 entries- csíra noun (mass of cells)
Indonesian
1 entries- kuman noun (mass of cells)
Italian
1 entries- germe noun (mass of cells)
Japanese
1 entries- 胚芽 noun (mass of cells)
Khmer
2 entries- ជីវាណូ noun (mass of cells)
- ពីជៈ noun (mass of cells)
Korean
1 entries- 배아 noun (mass of cells)
Portuguese
1 entries- germe noun (mass of cells)
Romanian
2 entries- germen noun (mass of cells)
- microb noun (mass of cells)
Russian
3 entries- заро́дыш noun (mass of cells)
- зача́ток noun (mass of cells)
- эмбрио́н noun (mass of cells)
Slovak
1 entries- klíček noun (mass of cells)
Spanish
1 entries- germen noun (mass of cells)
Swedish
1 entries- mikrob noun (mass of cells)
Tagalog
1 entries- binhay noun (mass of cells)
Ukrainian
3 entries- ембріо́н noun (mass of cells)
- заро́док noun (mass of cells)
- зача́ток noun (mass of cells)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mầm noun (mass of cells)
- mộng noun (mass of cells)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The patient gets a weakened version of the germ, which triggers the body's immune system to produce antibodies.
Source: tatoeba (8663628)
Antibodies work by attaching themselves to an invading germ.
Source: tatoeba (8855549)
I must not stay to notice the strange fortunes of all the many other quasi-human worlds. I will mention only that in some, though civilization was destroyed in a succession of savage wars, the germ of recovery precariously survived. In one, the agonizing balance of the old and the new seemed to prolong itself indefinitely. In another, where science had advanced too far for the safety of an immature species, man accidentally blew up his planet and his race. In several, the dialectical process of history was broken short by invasion and conquest on the part of inhabitants of another planet. These and other disaster, to be described in due course, decimated the galactic population of worlds.
Source: tatoeba (8877545)
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