The rooms in this hotel are really very bad at muffling sounds. I can hear my neighbor chewing his gum!
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Gum
//ɡʌm//
Synonyms for "gum" (109 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (33)
Related words (54)
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More general
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
Synonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
9 entriesat location
13 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
236 entriesShowing 16 of 236 words.
has context
5 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
6 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
229 translations across 118 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- tandvleis noun (flesh around teeth)
Albanian
3 entries- gingivë noun (flesh around teeth)
- nullë noun (flesh around teeth)
- nullëz noun (flesh around teeth)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- γλοιός noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- κόμμι noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- οὖλον noun (flesh around teeth)
Arabic
4 entries- صَمْغ noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- عِلْكَة noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- لتة noun (flesh around teeth)
- لثة noun (flesh around teeth)
Aragonese
2 entries- cheniva noun (flesh around teeth)
- geniva noun (flesh around teeth)
Aramaic
3 entries- דּוּר שֶׁנֵּי noun (flesh around teeth)
- דּרָרָא noun (flesh around teeth)
- ܕܘܼܪܵܐ ܕܫܸܢܢܹܐ noun (flesh around teeth)
Armenian
4 entries- լինդ noun (flesh around teeth)
- խեժ noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- խեժ noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
- ծամոն noun (single piece of chewing gum)
Aromanian
2 entries- dzindzie noun (flesh around teeth)
- dzindzii noun (flesh around teeth)
Asturian
2 entries- enxiva noun (flesh around teeth)
- xenxiva noun (flesh around teeth)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- diş əti noun (flesh around teeth)
Basque
1 entries- oi noun (flesh around teeth)
Bau Bidayuh
1 entries- dode noun (flesh around teeth)
Belarusian
1 entries- дзясна́ noun (flesh around teeth)
Bikol Central
1 entries- ngaros noun (flesh around teeth)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вене́ц noun (flesh around teeth)
- дъвка noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- клей noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- смола noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Burmese
1 entries- သွားဖုံး noun (flesh around teeth)
Catalan
1 entries- geniva noun (flesh around teeth)
Cebuano
1 entries- lagos noun (flesh around teeth)
Central Dusun
1 entries- monsis noun (flesh around teeth)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- پووک noun (flesh around teeth)
Central Melanau
2 entries- dadan noun (flesh around teeth)
- nyip noun (flesh around teeth)
Chavacano
1 entries- encia noun (flesh around teeth)
Chichewa
1 entries- nkhama noun (flesh around teeth)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 口香糖 noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- 牙齦 /牙龈 noun (flesh around teeth)
- 齒齦 /齿龈 noun (flesh around teeth)
- 齦 /龈 noun (flesh around teeth)
Cornish
1 entries- kig dens noun (flesh around teeth)
Czech
1 entries- dáseň noun (flesh around teeth)
Danish
4 entries- gumme noun (flesh around teeth)
- gummi noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- syntetgummi noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
- tandkød noun (flesh around teeth)
Dutch
1 entries- tandvlees noun (flesh around teeth)
Esperanto
3 entries- gingivo noun (flesh around teeth)
- gumo noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- gumo noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
Estonian
4 entries- ige noun (flesh around teeth)
- kummi noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- näts noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- vaik noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Faroese
3 entries- tannhald noun (flesh around teeth)
- tannhold noun (flesh around teeth)
- tannkjøt noun (flesh around teeth)
Finnish
1 entries- ikenet noun (flesh around teeth)
French
4 entries- chewing-gum noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- gencive noun (flesh around teeth)
- gomme noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- gomme noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
Friulian
1 entries- zenzie noun (flesh around teeth)
Galician
4 entries- enxiva noun (flesh around teeth)
- goma noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- goma de mascar noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- resina noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Georgian
2 entries- სასა noun (flesh around teeth)
- ღრძილი noun (flesh around teeth)
German
4 entries- Billere noun (flesh around teeth)
- Kaugummi noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- Kautschuk noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- Zahnfleisch noun (flesh around teeth)
Greek
1 entries- ούλο noun (flesh around teeth)
Hebrew
2 entries- חֲנִיכַיִם noun (flesh around teeth)
- חניכיים noun (flesh around teeth)
Hiligaynon
1 entries- lasi noun (flesh around teeth)
Hindi
1 entries- मसूड़ा noun (flesh around teeth)
Hungarian
2 entries- fogíny noun (flesh around teeth)
- íny noun (flesh around teeth)
Icelandic
1 entries- tannhold noun (flesh around teeth)
Ido
1 entries- jenjivo noun (flesh around teeth)
Indonesian
1 entries- gusi noun (flesh around teeth)
Ingrian
1 entries- ien noun (flesh around teeth)
Interlingua
1 entries- gingiva noun (flesh around teeth)
Inuktitut
1 entries- ᐃᒃᑭᖅ noun (flesh around teeth)
Irish
4 entries- carball noun (flesh around teeth)
- drandal noun (flesh around teeth)
- guma noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- guma noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
Italian
1 entries- gengiva noun (flesh around teeth)
Japanese
4 entries- 歯肉 noun (flesh around teeth)
- 歯茎 noun (flesh around teeth)
- 歯齦 noun (flesh around teeth)
- 齦 noun (flesh around teeth)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦒꦸꦱꦶ noun (flesh around teeth)
Kazakh
2 entries- тістің ет noun (flesh around teeth)
- қызыл иек noun (flesh around teeth)
Khmer
2 entries- ជើងធ្មេញ noun (flesh around teeth)
- ជ័រឈើ noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Kimaragang
1 entries- ngonsis noun (flesh around teeth)
Korean
1 entries- 잇몸 noun (flesh around teeth)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бүйлө noun (flesh around teeth)
Lao
2 entries- ຟັນ noun (flesh around teeth)
- ເຫງືອກ noun (flesh around teeth)
Latgalian
1 entries- muzlys noun (flesh around teeth)
Latin
1 entries- gingīva noun (flesh around teeth)
Latvian
1 entries- smaganas noun (flesh around teeth)
Lithuanian
1 entries- dantenos noun (flesh around teeth)
Lombard
1 entries- zenziva noun (flesh around teeth)
Lotud
1 entries- monsis noun (flesh around teeth)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- źěsna noun (flesh around teeth)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Zännfleesch noun (flesh around teeth)
Lü
1 entries- ᦵᦄᦲᧅ noun (flesh around teeth)
Macedonian
1 entries- десни noun (flesh around teeth)
Malay
2 entries- getah noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- gusi noun (flesh around teeth)
Manchu
1 entries- ᡠᠮᠠᠨ noun (flesh around teeth)
Mansaka
1 entries- goos noun (flesh around teeth)
Mongolian
1 entries- буйл noun (flesh around teeth)
Māori
2 entries- pia noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- ware noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Navajo
1 entries- awótsíín noun (flesh around teeth)
Nepali
1 entries- गिजा noun (flesh around teeth)
Norman
1 entries- denchive noun (flesh around teeth)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- pidî noun (flesh around teeth)
- pidû noun (flesh around teeth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tannkjøtt noun (flesh around teeth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- mumpa verb (to chew by using gums)
Occitan
1 entries- gengiva noun (flesh around teeth)
Old English
2 entries- teoru noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- trēowteoru noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- دیش اتی noun (flesh around teeth)
- راتینج noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- رچینه noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- ساقز noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Persian
4 entries- آروک noun (flesh around teeth)
- اروک noun (flesh around teeth)
- ارک noun (flesh around teeth)
- انگم noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Polish
2 entries- dziąsła noun (flesh around teeth)
- dziąsło noun (flesh around teeth)
Portuguese
4 entries- chiclete noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- gengiva noun (flesh around teeth)
- goma de mascar noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- resina noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Romanian
1 entries- gingie noun (flesh around teeth)
Romansch
1 entries- schunschiva noun (flesh around teeth)
Rungus
1 entries- ngonsis noun (flesh around teeth)
Russian
4 entries- десна́ noun (flesh around teeth)
- жвачка noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- камедь noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- смола noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Sabah Bisaya
1 entries- sinsilon noun (flesh around teeth)
Sanskrit
2 entries- द्रव्य noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- निर्यास noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Sardinian
3 entries- benzía noun (flesh around teeth)
- ghinghía noun (flesh around teeth)
- sénsia noun (flesh around teeth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dȇsni noun (flesh around teeth)
- де̑сни noun (flesh around teeth)
Sicilian
3 entries- cincili noun (flesh around teeth)
- gingili noun (flesh around teeth)
- zinzìa noun (flesh around teeth)
Slovak
2 entries- ďasno noun (flesh around teeth)
- žuvačka noun (single piece of chewing gum)
Slovene
1 entries- dlésen noun (flesh around teeth)
Southern Altai
3 entries- бӱӱле noun (flesh around teeth)
- саҥыс noun (flesh around teeth)
- тиш эт noun (flesh around teeth)
Spanish
3 entries- chicle noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- encía noun (flesh around teeth)
- goma noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Swahili
1 entries- ufizi noun (flesh around teeth)
Swedish
3 entries- gummi noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- tandkött noun (flesh around teeth)
- tuggummi noun (single piece of chewing gum)
Tagal Murut
1 entries- sinsilon noun (flesh around teeth)
Tagalog
2 entries- gilagid noun (flesh around teeth)
- kalamak noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Tajik
2 entries- вора noun (flesh around teeth)
- милки дандон noun (flesh around teeth)
Thai
4 entries- กาว noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
- ยาง noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- ยาง noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
- หมากฝรั่ง noun (single piece of chewing gum)
Timugon Murut
1 entries- sinsilon noun (flesh around teeth)
Turkish
4 entries- diş eti noun (flesh around teeth)
- kauçuk noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- kauçuk noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
- zamk noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
Turkmen
1 entries- diş eti noun (flesh around teeth)
Ukrainian
4 entries- гумка noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- жуйка noun (single piece of chewing gum)
- камедь noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- я́сна noun (flesh around teeth)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- dźasna noun (flesh around teeth)
Urdu
1 entries- مَسُوڑھا noun (flesh around teeth)
Uzbek
1 entries- milk noun (flesh around teeth)
Venetan
3 entries- xenxìva noun (flesh around teeth)
- zenzìva noun (flesh around teeth)
- zinzìva noun (flesh around teeth)
Vietnamese
2 entries- lợi noun (flesh around teeth)
- nướu noun (flesh around teeth)
Volapük
1 entries- gingif noun (flesh around teeth)
Waray-Waray
1 entries- lagos noun (flesh around teeth)
Welsh
4 entries- deintgig noun (flesh around teeth)
- gorcharfan noun (flesh around teeth)
- gwm noun (sticky substance exuded by certain plants)
- gwm noun (sticky substance resembling that exuded by certain plants)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- isi impon noun (flesh around teeth)
West-Frisian
1 entries- toskfleis noun (flesh around teeth)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Gum got stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
Source: tatoeba (18109)
Believe it or not, it came in a pack of gum.
Source: tatoeba (36042)
Some gum stuck to his shoes.
Source: tatoeba (63568)
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