Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.
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Latch
//læt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "latch" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
21 entriesShowing 16 of 21 words.
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2 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
45 entriesShowing 16 of 45 words.
Translations
145 translations across 48 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- bakllama noun (fastening for a door)
- reze noun (fastening for a door)
Arabic
3 entries- زِلاَج noun (fastening for a door)
- ضَبَّة noun (fastening for a door)
- مِزْلاَج noun (fastening for a door)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qapı sürgüsü noun (fastening for a door)
Belarusian
1 entries- клямка noun (fastening for a door)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мандало noun (fastening for a door)
- резе noun (fastening for a door)
Catalan
2 entries- llisquet noun (fastening for a door)
- pestell noun (fastening for a door)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 含乳 noun (baby's connection to the breast)
- 锁存器 noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- 門釦 /门扣 noun (fastening for a door)
- 門閂 /门闩 noun (fastening for a door)
Czech
1 entries- petlice noun (fastening for a door)
Dutch
2 entries- klink noun (fastening for a door)
- kruisboog noun (crossbow)
Esperanto
4 entries- anso noun (fastening for a door)
- klinko noun (fastening for a door)
- riglilo noun (fastening for a door)
- rigli verb (to close with a latch)
Finnish
4 entries- imuote noun (baby's connection to the breast)
- kiikku noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- salpa noun (fastening for a door)
- salpa noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
French
4 entries- bascule noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- loquet noun (fastening for a door)
- prise de sein noun (baby's connection to the breast)
- succion noun (baby's connection to the breast)
Galician
4 entries- caravilla noun (fastening for a door)
- martabela noun (fastening for a door)
- pecho noun (fastening for a door)
- pechar verb (to close with a latch)
German
4 entries- Anschlag noun (fastening for a door)
- Armbrust noun (crossbow)
- Arretierung noun (fastening for a door)
- Auffangregister noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
Greek
4 entries- μάνταλο noun (fastening for a door)
- μανδαλωτής noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- μανταλωτής noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- σύρτης noun (fastening for a door)
Gujarati
1 entries- નકૂચો noun (fastening for a door)
Hebrew
1 entries- בריח noun (fastening for a door)
Hindi
3 entries- अर्गल noun (fastening for a door)
- कुंडी noun (fastening for a door)
- सिटकिनी noun (fastening for a door)
Hungarian
1 entries- retesz noun (fastening for a door)
Indonesian
1 entries- selot noun (fastening for a door)
Italian
2 entries- chiavistello noun (fastening for a door)
- fermo noun (fastening for a door)
Japanese
2 entries- ラッチ noun (fastening for a door)
- 掛け金 noun (fastening for a door)
Khmer
1 entries- គន្លឹះទ្វារ noun (fastening for a door)
Korean
1 entries- 걸쇠 noun (fastening for a door)
Macedonian
1 entries- самострел noun (crossbow)
Malayalam
1 entries- കുറ്റി noun (fastening for a door)
Mongolian
2 entries- оньс noun (fastening for a door)
- түгжээ noun (fastening for a door)
Māori
4 entries- rawe noun (fastening for a door)
- tūtaki noun (fastening for a door)
- whakarawa noun (fastening for a door)
- whakarawa verb (to close with a latch)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- كلید noun (fastening for a door)
- ماندال noun (fastening for a door)
- مغلاق noun (fastening for a door)
- مانداللامق verb (to close with a latch)
Persian
1 entries- کلون noun (fastening for a door)
Polish
4 entries- antaba noun (fastening for a door)
- kusza noun (crossbow)
- przerzutnik noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- rygiel noun (fastening for a door)
Portuguese
4 entries- flip-flop noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- tranca noun (fastening for a door)
- trinco noun (fastening for a door)
- trincar verb (to close with a latch)
Romanian
2 entries- zăvoare noun (fastening for a door)
- zăvor noun (fastening for a door)
Russian
4 entries- задви́жка noun (fastening for a door)
- запо́р noun (fastening for a door)
- засо́в noun (fastening for a door)
- защёлка noun (fastening for a door)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sneic noun (fastening for a door)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- reza noun (fastening for a door)
- samostrel noun (crossbow)
- zasun noun (fastening for a door)
- zavoranj noun (fastening for a door)
Slovak
3 entries- haspra noun (fastening for a door)
- kuša noun (crossbow)
- petlica noun (fastening for a door)
Spanish
4 entries- biestable noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- cerrojo noun (fastening for a door)
- falleba noun (fastening for a door)
- pestillo noun (fastening for a door)
Swedish
4 entries- hasp noun (fastening for a door)
- låskrets noun (flip-flop electronic circuit)
- regel noun (fastening for a door)
- regla verb (to close with a latch)
Tagalog
1 entries- busulan noun (fastening for a door)
Tajik
1 entries- лукидон noun (fastening for a door)
Tamil
3 entries- தாழ் noun (fastening for a door)
- தாழ்ப்பாள் noun (fastening for a door)
- தாழிடு verb (to close with a latch)
Thai
2 entries- กลอน noun (fastening for a door)
- หน้าไม้ noun (crossbow)
Turkish
1 entries- mandallamak verb (to close with a latch)
Ukrainian
1 entries- за́сув noun (fastening for a door)
Uzbek
2 entries- gaʻlaqa noun (fastening for a door)
- loʻkidon noun (fastening for a door)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chốt cửa noun (fastening for a door)
- then cửa noun (fastening for a door)
Welsh
1 entries- clicied noun (fastening for a door)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The door is on the latch.
Source: tatoeba (1345389)
The poor man's door has a creditor's latch.
Source: tatoeba (2563219)
They're fixing the latch.
Source: tatoeba (5744410)
Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.