My upbringing was the germinal idea behind the opera.
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Germinal
//ˈdʒɜː(ɹ)mɪnəl//
Synonyms for "germinal" (90 found)
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Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
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2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
derived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
46 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- جِرْمِينَال name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Armenian
1 entries- ժերմինալ name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- jerminal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Basque
1 entries- sapadun name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Belarusian
1 entries- жэрміна́ль name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зародишен adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
- зачатъчен adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
Catalan
2 entries- germinal adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 芽月 name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 芽月 name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Dutch
2 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- kiemmaand name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĝerminalo name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Estonian
2 entries- idanemiskuu name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- žerminaal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Finnish
1 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
French
1 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Galician
1 entries- xerminal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Georgian
2 entries- ჩანასახოვანი adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
- ჟერმინალი name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
German
2 entries- Germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- Keimmonat name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Greek
2 entries- Βλασταίος name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- Ζερμινάλ name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Hebrew
1 entries- זֶ׳רְמִינָאל name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Italian
2 entries- germile name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- germinale name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Japanese
2 entries- ジェルミナール name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- 芽月 name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Korean
2 entries- 싹달 name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- 제르미날 name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žerminalis name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Malayalam
1 entries- ജെർമിനൽ name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Marathi
1 entries- जेर्मिनल name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Persian
1 entries- ژِرمینال name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Polish
1 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Portuguese
1 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Romanian
1 entries- germinal adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
Russian
1 entries- жермина́ль name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Spanish
2 entries- germinal adj (pertaining or belonging to a germ)
- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Swedish
2 entries- germinal name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
- gromingsmånad name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жерміна́ль name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tháng nảy mầm name (the seventh month of the French Republican Calendar)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
This case was germinal to development of the theory of joint participation.
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