Though this knave came something saucily into the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair; there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.
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Knave
//neɪv//
Synonyms for "knave" (152 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (45)
Noun(13 words)
Related words (76)
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5 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
11 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
180 translations across 73 languages.
Ahtna
1 entries- kohtʼaene noun (playing card)
Albanian
1 entries- fant noun (playing card)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πανοῦργος noun (deceitful fellow)
Arabic
1 entries- أَعْرَج noun (playing card)
Armenian
2 entries- զինվոր noun (playing card)
- վալետ noun (playing card)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- oğlan noun (playing card)
- vale noun (playing card)
- valet noun (playing card)
Belarusian
2 entries- вале́т noun (playing card)
- ні́жнік noun (playing card)
Bengali
1 entries- গোলাম noun (playing card)
Bulgarian
3 entries- вале́ noun (playing card)
- моше́ник noun (deceitful fellow)
- прислу́жник noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
Burmese
1 entries- ဂျက် noun (playing card)
Catalan
2 entries- patge noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- sota noun (playing card)
Chickasaw
1 entries- minko' oshi' noun (playing card)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 積 /积 noun (playing card)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- J noun (playing card)
- 惡棍 /恶棍 noun (deceitful fellow)
- 鉤 /钩 noun (playing card)
Czech
4 entries- bídák noun (deceitful fellow)
- darebák noun (deceitful fellow)
- kluk noun (playing card)
- lotr noun (deceitful fellow)
Danish
1 entries- knægt noun (playing card)
Dutch
4 entries- boer noun (playing card)
- boy noun (archaic: any male servant)
- knaap noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- knecht noun (archaic: any male servant)
Esperanto
3 entries- bubo noun (playing card)
- fanto noun (playing card)
- paĝio noun (playing card)
Estonian
2 entries- poiss noun (playing card)
- soldat noun (playing card)
Finnish
4 entries- hovipoika noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- jätkä noun (playing card)
- knaapi noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- knaapi noun (archaic: any male servant)
French
4 entries- faquin noun (deceitful fellow)
- fourbe noun (deceitful fellow)
- page noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- valet noun (playing card)
Georgian
4 entries- არამზადა noun (deceitful fellow)
- გაიძვერა noun (deceitful fellow)
- ვალეტი noun (playing card)
- თაღლითი noun (deceitful fellow)
German
4 entries- Bube noun (playing card)
- Bösewicht noun (deceitful fellow)
- Gauner noun (deceitful fellow)
- Junge noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
Greek
2 entries- απατεών noun (deceitful fellow)
- βαλές noun (playing card)
Hebrew
1 entries- נָסִיךְ noun (playing card)
Hindi
1 entries- ग़ुलाम noun (playing card)
Hungarian
4 entries- bubi noun (playing card)
- csibész noun (deceitful fellow)
- gazember noun (deceitful fellow)
- jumbó noun (playing card)
Icelandic
1 entries- gosi noun (playing card)
Ido
1 entries- pajo noun (playing card)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- سَرْباز noun (playing card)
Irish
1 entries- cuireata noun (playing card)
Italian
4 entries- fante noun (playing card)
- garzone noun (archaic: any male servant)
- giovane noun (archaic: any male servant)
- paggio noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
Japanese
2 entries- ジャック noun (playing card)
- 悪党 noun (deceitful fellow)
Kazakh
1 entries- балта noun (playing card)
Khmer
1 entries- កាតឹប noun (playing card)
Korean
1 entries- 잭 noun (playing card)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- балта noun (playing card)
- валет noun (playing card)
Latvian
1 entries- kalps noun (playing card)
Lithuanian
4 entries- kaplys noun (playing card)
- kojinis noun (playing card)
- žemukas noun (playing card)
- žemys noun (playing card)
Macedonian
2 entries- и́змамник noun (deceitful fellow)
- џа́ндар noun (playing card)
Malay
1 entries- pekak noun (playing card)
Maltese
1 entries- kavall noun (playing card)
Mongolian
2 entries- боол noun (playing card)
- ᠪᠣᠭᠣᠯ noun (playing card)
Māori
1 entries- tiaki noun (playing card)
Navajo
1 entries- sóóda noun (playing card)
Norman
1 entries- valet noun (playing card)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- knekt noun (playing card)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- knekt noun (playing card)
Ojibwe
1 entries- zhiimaaganish noun (playing card)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- اوغلان noun (playing card)
- باجاق noun (playing card)
- فانتی noun (playing card)
- لوند noun (deceitful fellow)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Hollunk noun (deceitful fellow)
Polish
4 entries- chłopiec pracujący jako służący noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- jopek noun (playing card)
- niegodziwiec noun (deceitful fellow)
- sługa noun (archaic: any male servant)
Portuguese
2 entries- pajem noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- valete noun (playing card)
Romanian
4 entries- bandit noun (deceitful fellow)
- nemernic noun (deceitful fellow)
- paj noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- pungaș noun (deceitful fellow)
Russian
4 entries- вале́т noun (playing card)
- жу́лик noun (deceitful fellow)
- лаке́й noun (archaic: any male servant)
- ма́льчик-слуга́ noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dȅčko noun (playing card)
- де̏чко noun (playing card)
Sicilian
1 entries- donna noun (playing card)
Silesian
1 entries- dupek noun (playing card)
Slovak
1 entries- dolník noun (playing card)
Slovene
2 entries- fant noun (playing card)
- pob noun (playing card)
Spanish
4 entries- bellaco noun (deceitful fellow)
- mozo noun (archaic: any male servant)
- paje noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- sota noun (playing card)
Swahili
4 entries- ghulamu noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- ghulamu noun (archaic: any male servant)
- ghulamu noun (deceitful fellow)
- ghulamu class V noun (playing card)
Swedish
4 entries- dräng (farmhand) noun (archaic: any male servant)
- gynnare noun (deceitful fellow)
- hjon noun (archaic: boy; especially, boy servant)
- knekt noun (playing card)
Tajik
1 entries- саллот noun (playing card)
Thai
1 entries- แจ็ค noun (playing card)
Turkish
3 entries- bacak noun (playing card)
- oğlan noun (playing card)
- vale noun (playing card)
Ukrainian
1 entries- вале́т noun (playing card)
Urdu
1 entries- غُلام noun (playing card)
Uzbek
2 entries- sallot noun (playing card)
- valet noun (playing card)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bồi noun (playing card)
Welsh
2 entries- jac noun (playing card)
- milwr noun (playing card)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּויער noun (playing card)
Zazaki
2 entries- vale noun (playing card)
- zelat noun (playing card)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
The Sheriff of Nottingham swore that he himself would bring this knave Robin Hood to justice.
Source: tatoeba (5320355)
You've thwarted my plans for the last time, you miserable knave!
Source: tatoeba (11020737)
Deal out twenty-five cards in five rows, each containing five cards. The object is to compose the number fourteen with any two cards taken either from a perpendicular or from a horizontal row. The knave counts eleven, the queen twelve, and the king thirteen.
Source: tatoeba (12117933)
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