Mary wore knee-high boots.
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Knee-high
//ˌniːˈhaɪ//
Synonyms for "knee-high" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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2 entriescoordinate
6 entriesderived
3 entriesTranslations
27 translations across 17 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- гольф noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 膝上襪 /膝上袜 noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Czech
1 entries- podkolenka noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Danish
1 entries- knæstrømpe noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Dutch
1 entries- kniekous noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Finnish
1 entries- polvisukka noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
French
2 entries- demi-bas noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- mi-bas noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
German
2 entries- kniehoch adj (reaching to the height of a person’s knees)
- Kniestrumpf noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Hungarian
1 entries- térdzokni noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Italian
1 entries- gambaletto noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Japanese
3 entries- ニーソックス noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- ニーハイソックス noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- ハイソックス noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Korean
4 entries- 니 삭스 noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- 니 하이 삭스 noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- 무릎양말 noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- 반스타킹 noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Polish
2 entries- podkolanówka noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
- zakolanówka noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Russian
1 entries- гольф noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Swedish
2 entries- knähög adj (reaching to the height of a person’s knees)
- knästrumpa noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гольф noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tất nhỡ noun (sock that reaches almost up to the knee)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Mary wore knee-high socks.
Source: tatoeba (3590446)
Mary put on her knee-high boots.
Source: tatoeba (5785817)
The grass was almost knee-high.
Source: tatoeba (11645856)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.