There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood.
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Handful
//ˈhæn(d)fʊl//
Synonyms for "handful" (97 found)
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Related words (48)
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3 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
2 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
154 translations across 66 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δράξ noun (amount held in hand)
Arabic
1 entries- حَفْنَة noun (amount held in hand)
Armenian
2 entries- բուռ noun (amount held in hand)
- բուռ noun (small number)
Aromanian
1 entries- mãnatã noun (amount held in hand)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ovuc noun (amount held in hand)
Bashkir
2 entries- ая noun (breadth of hand)
- ус noun (amount held in hand)
Belarusian
1 entries- жме́ня noun (amount held in hand)
Bulgarian
2 entries- педя noun (breadth of hand)
- шепа noun (amount held in hand)
Catalan
1 entries- grapat noun (small number)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 少數 /少数 noun (small number)
- 棘手事 noun (handled with difficulty)
- 滿手 /满手 noun (amount held in hand)
Czech
1 entries- hrst noun (amount held in hand)
Danish
3 entries- håndfuld noun (amount held in hand)
- håndfuld noun (small number)
- håndsbred noun (breadth of hand)
Dutch
4 entries- beetje noun (small number)
- handbreed noun (breadth of hand)
- handbreedte noun (breadth of hand)
- handenbinder noun (handled with difficulty)
Esperanto
2 entries- manpleno noun (amount held in hand)
- plenmano noun (amount held in hand)
Finnish
2 entries- kourallinen noun (amount held in hand)
- kourallinen noun (small number)
French
3 entries- manipule noun (breadth of hand)
- poignée noun (amount held in hand)
- poignée noun (small number)
Galician
3 entries- manchea noun (amount held in hand)
- manda noun (amount held in hand)
- presa noun (amount held in hand)
German
4 entries- Gaufflete noun (amount held in hand)
- Handbreite noun (breadth of hand)
- Handvoll noun (amount held in hand)
- Handvoll noun (small number)
Greek
2 entries- χούφτα noun (amount held in hand)
- χούφτα noun (small number)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֹפֶן noun (amount held in hand)
Hungarian
4 entries- marok noun (amount held in hand)
- maroknyi noun (amount held in hand)
- marék noun (amount held in hand)
- maréknyi noun (amount held in hand)
Ido
2 entries- manuedo noun (amount held in hand)
- pugnedo noun (amount held in hand)
Indonesian
2 entries- segenggam noun (amount held in hand)
- segenggam noun (small number)
Ingrian
2 entries- pijo noun (amount held in hand)
- pijolliin noun (amount held in hand)
Irish
3 entries- crág noun (amount held in hand)
- lán glaice noun (amount held in hand)
- lán láimhe noun (amount held in hand)
Italian
4 entries- birichino noun (handled with difficulty)
- gruppetto noun (breadth of hand)
- indisciplinato noun (handled with difficulty)
- irrequieto noun (handled with difficulty)
Japanese
3 entries- 一掴み noun (amount held in hand)
- 一握り noun (amount held in hand)
- 少数 noun (small number)
Kazakh
1 entries- уыс noun (amount held in hand)
Korean
1 entries- 한 줌 noun (amount held in hand)
Latgalian
1 entries- sauve noun (amount held in hand)
Latin
2 entries- manipulus noun (amount held in hand)
- pugillum noun (amount held in hand)
Latvian
1 entries- sauja noun (amount held in hand)
Lower Sorbian
3 entries- gjarstka noun (small number)
- gjarsć noun (amount held in hand)
- gjarsć noun (small number)
Macedonian
3 entries- гр́ст noun (amount held in hand)
- гр́ст noun (breadth of hand)
- гр́ст noun (small number)
Māori
2 entries- kapuranga noun (amount held in hand)
- kutanga noun (amount held in hand)
Norman
2 entries- pouongnie noun (amount held in hand)
- pouongnie noun (small number)
Northern Altai
2 entries- каам noun (amount held in hand)
- ош noun (amount held in hand)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- handfull noun (amount held in hand)
- handfull noun (small number)
- håndfull noun (amount held in hand)
- håndfull noun (small number)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- handfull noun (amount held in hand)
- handfull noun (small number)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آوج noun (amount held in hand)
Polish
4 entries- garstka noun (small number)
- garść noun (amount held in hand)
- garść noun (small number)
- trudne do zniesienia noun (handled with difficulty)
Portuguese
4 entries- mancheia noun (amount held in hand)
- palmo noun (breadth of hand)
- punhado noun (amount held in hand)
- punhado noun (small number)
Quechua
1 entries- q'api noun (amount held in hand)
Romanian
2 entries- mănunchi noun (amount held in hand)
- pumn noun (amount held in hand)
Russian
4 entries- го́рстка noun (small number)
- горсть noun (amount held in hand)
- горсть noun (small number)
- жме́ня noun (amount held in hand)
Scots
3 entries- haundfu noun (amount held in hand)
- luiffu noun (amount held in hand)
- nievefu noun (amount held in hand)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- làn cròige noun (amount held in hand)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- pregršt noun (amount held in hand)
Shan
1 entries- ယွပ်း noun (amount held in hand)
Slovak
2 entries- hrsť noun (amount held in hand)
- hŕstka noun (amount held in hand)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ууш noun (amount held in hand)
Spanish
4 entries- almozada noun (amount held in hand)
- almueza noun (amount held in hand)
- ambuesta noun (amount held in hand)
- manojo noun (amount held in hand)
Swedish
3 entries- handfull noun (amount held in hand)
- handfull noun (small number)
- näve noun (amount held in hand)
Tamil
4 entries- கை அளவு noun (breadth of hand)
- கைப்பிடி noun (amount held in hand)
- கொஞ்சம் noun (small number)
- தலைவலி noun (handled with difficulty)
Tatar
1 entries- уч noun (amount held in hand)
Telugu
2 entries- చేరెడు noun (breadth of hand)
- పిడికెడు noun (amount held in hand)
Thai
1 entries- หยิบมือเดียว noun (amount held in hand)
Turkish
3 entries- bir avuç noun (amount held in hand)
- bir avuç noun (small number)
- karış noun (breadth of hand)
Tày
1 entries- căm noun (amount held in hand)
Ukrainian
1 entries- жме́ня noun (amount held in hand)
Unami
1 entries- chuwi nàxkink noun (amount held in hand)
Venetan
3 entries- desvià noun (handled with difficulty)
- grop noun (small number)
- slandron noun (handled with difficulty)
Vietnamese
2 entries- nắm noun (amount held in hand)
- vốc noun (amount held in hand)
Welsh
2 entries- dyrnaid noun (amount held in hand)
- llond llaw noun (amount held in hand)
Yiddish
1 entries- זשמעניע noun (amount held in hand)
Zulu
2 entries- isandla noun (amount held in hand)
- ukhweshe class 11/10 noun (amount held in hand)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Only a handful of people came to the meeting.
Source: tatoeba (22451)
Only a handful of activists in our union are articulate.
Source: tatoeba (23362)
Only a handful of people know the fact.
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