We communicated with each other by gesture.
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Gesture
//ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ//
Synonyms for "gesture" (125 found)
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Closest matches (25)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (62)
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9 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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7 entriesmade of
1 entriesrelated to
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
Translations
152 translations across 65 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- gebaar noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gebaar noun (act or remark)
Albanian
1 entries- gjest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Arabic
2 entries- إِشَارَة noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- لَفْتَة noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Armenian
3 entries- ժեստ noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ժեստ noun (act or remark)
- շարժում noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- jest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Belarusian
2 entries- жэст noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- целару́х noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Bengali
2 entries- ইশারা noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- সংকেত noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Bulgarian
2 entries- жест noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- жестикулирам verb (to make a gesture)
Burmese
1 entries- အမူအရာ noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Catalan
2 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gest noun (act or remark)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 姿勢 /姿势 noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- 手勢 /手势 noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- 表示 noun (act or remark)
- 做手勢 /做手势 verb (to make a gesture)
Czech
2 entries- gesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesto noun (act or remark)
Danish
2 entries- gestus noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gestus noun (act or remark)
Dutch
4 entries- gebaar noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gebaar noun (act or remark)
- geste noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- geste noun (act or remark)
Esperanto
2 entries- gesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesti verb (to make a gesture)
Estonian
1 entries- žest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Finnish
4 entries- ele noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ele noun (act or remark)
- ilmaus noun (act or remark)
- liike noun (motion of the limbs or body)
French
3 entries- geste noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- geste noun (act or remark)
- signe noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Galician
4 entries- aceno noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- sinal noun (act or remark)
- visaxe noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- xesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Georgian
4 entries- მოძრაობა noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ნიშანი noun (act or remark)
- ჟესტი noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ჟესტი noun (act or remark)
German
4 entries- Gebärde noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- Geste noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- Geste noun (act or remark)
- (jemandem etwas) bedeuten verb (to express something by a gesture)
Greek
1 entries- χειρονομία noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Hebrew
2 entries- גֶ׳סְטָה noun (act or remark)
- מחווה \ מֶחֱוָה noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Hindi
2 entries- इशारा noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- संकेत noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Hungarian
2 entries- gesztus noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- mozdulat noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Icelandic
1 entries- látbragð noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Italian
1 entries- gesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Japanese
1 entries- ジェスチャー noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Kazakh
1 entries- ым noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Khmer
1 entries- កាយវិការ noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Korean
1 entries- 제스처 noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- жаңдоо noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Latin
1 entries- gestus noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Latvian
2 entries- žests noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- žests noun (act or remark)
Lithuanian
1 entries- gestas noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Macedonian
1 entries- гест noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Mongolian
2 entries- дохио noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ᠳᠣᠬᠢᠶᠠ noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Māori
3 entries- ohaoha verb (to make a gesture)
- tuone verb (to make a gesture)
- whakapuwheto verb (to express something by a gesture)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- îşaret noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gest noun (act or remark)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gest noun (act or remark)
Pashto
1 entries- اشاره noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Persian
2 entries- اشاره noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ژست noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Polish
1 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Portuguese
4 entries- gesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesto noun (act or remark)
- sinal noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesticular verb (to make a gesture)
Romanian
1 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Russian
4 entries- жест noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- жест noun (act or remark)
- посту́пок noun (act or remark)
- телодвиже́ние noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gluasad noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- gest noun (act or remark)
- gesta noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesta noun (act or remark)
- gȅst noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Slovak
3 entries- gesto noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesto noun (act or remark)
- gestikulovať verb (to make a gesture)
Slovene
2 entries- gesta noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- kretnja noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Spanish
4 entries- ademán noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- amague noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- atención noun (act or remark)
- detalle noun (act or remark)
Swedish
4 entries- gest noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gest noun (act or remark)
- åtbörd noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gestikulera verb (to make a gesture)
Tajik
3 entries- имову ишора noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ишора noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ишорат noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Tatar
1 entries- ишарә noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Telugu
1 entries- ఆంగికము noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Thai
1 entries- ท่าทาง noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Turkish
4 entries- baş hareketi noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- el hareketi noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- el kol hareketi noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- gesture noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Turkmen
1 entries- yşarat noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ві́друх noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- жест noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Urdu
1 entries- اشاره noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Uyghur
1 entries- ئىشارەت noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Uzbek
3 entries- imo noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ishora noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- ishorat noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bộ tịch noun (motion of the limbs or body)
- cử chỉ noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Yiddish
1 entries- זשעסט noun (motion of the limbs or body)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
The gesture fetched a laugh from the audience.
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Jane made an angry gesture.
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This gesture is familiar to young people.
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