When she dumped me, the shock of it was like a huge gong going off and scrambling all my thoughts.
Source: tatoeba (63801)
Gong
//ɡɔŋ//
Synonyms for "gong" (102 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (51)
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3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
11 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
26 entriesShowing 16 of 26 words.
used for
15 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 49 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- ghong noun (percussion instrument)
Albanian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Arabic
2 entries- جَرَس noun (percussion instrument)
- نَاقُوس noun (percussion instrument)
Belarusian
1 entries- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Catalan
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 鑼 /锣 noun (percussion instrument)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 鑼 /锣 noun (percussion instrument)
Czech
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Danish
1 entries- gongong noun (percussion instrument)
Dutch
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Esperanto
1 entries- gongo noun (percussion instrument)
Finnish
1 entries- gongi noun (percussion instrument)
French
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Georgian
1 entries- გონგი noun (percussion instrument)
German
1 entries- Gong noun (percussion instrument)
Greek
1 entries- γκονγκ noun (percussion instrument)
Hebrew
1 entries- גונג noun (percussion instrument)
Hindi
1 entries- घंटा noun (percussion instrument)
Hungarian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Indonesian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Italian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Japanese
2 entries- ゴング noun (percussion instrument)
- 銅鑼 noun (percussion instrument)
Korean
2 entries- 공 noun (percussion instrument)
- 징 noun (percussion instrument)
Lao
1 entries- ຄ້ອງ noun (percussion instrument)
Lingala
1 entries- lokole noun (percussion instrument)
Lü
1 entries- ᦅᦸᧂᧉ noun (percussion instrument)
Macedonian
1 entries- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Malay
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠯᠣᠩᡴᠣᠨ noun (percussion instrument)
Maranao
1 entries- momongan noun (percussion instrument)
Māori
1 entries- pahū noun (percussion instrument)
Norwegian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Polish
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Portuguese
1 entries- gongo noun (percussion instrument)
Romanian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Russian
1 entries- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Sicilian
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Sikkimese
1 entries- མཁར་རྔ noun (percussion instrument)
Slovene
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Spanish
3 entries- batintín noun (percussion instrument)
- gong noun (percussion instrument)
- gongo noun (percussion instrument)
Swedish
1 entries- gonggong noun (percussion instrument)
Tai Dam
1 entries- ꪁ꫁ꪮꪉ noun (percussion instrument)
Thai
1 entries- ฆ้อง noun (percussion instrument)
Tibetan
1 entries- འཁར་རྔ noun (percussion instrument)
Turkish
1 entries- gong noun (percussion instrument)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гонг noun (percussion instrument)
Vietnamese
2 entries- cồng noun (percussion instrument)
- cồng chiêng noun (percussion instrument)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The room emptied when the gong for dinner sounded.
Source: tatoeba (268705)
I won't see that gong anymore.
Source: tatoeba (1740693)
My head feels like a gong.
Source: tatoeba (6703301)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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