Lemming

Synonyms for "lemming" (14 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Strong matches (4)

Related words (7)

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Translations

52 translations across 38 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • леминг noun (rodent)

Catalan

1 entries
  • lèmming noun (rodent)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 旅鼠 noun (rodent)

Chukchi

1 entries
  • гувчеԓкаԓгын noun (rodent)

Czech

1 entries
  • lumík noun (rodent)

Danish

2 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)
  • lemming noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)

Dutch

1 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)

Eastern Mari

1 entries
  • лемминг noun (rodent)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • lemo noun (rodent)

Estonian

1 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)

Faroese

1 entries
  • læmingi noun (rodent)

Finnish

3 entries
  • laumasielu noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)
  • sopuli noun (rodent)
  • sopuli noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)

French

2 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)
  • mouton de Panurge noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ლემინგები noun (rodent)

German

1 entries
  • Lemming noun (rodent)

Greenlandic

3 entries
  • avinngaq noun (rodent)
  • maajooq noun (rodent)
  • narlumukaaq noun (rodent)

Hawaiian

1 entries
  • ʻawinaka noun (rodent)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • לֵמוּס noun (rodent)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • læmingi noun (rodent)

Ido

1 entries
  • lemingo noun (rodent)

Inuktitut

1 entries
  • ᐊᕕᙵᖅ noun (rodent)

Italian

2 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)
  • lemmo noun (rodent)

Japanese

2 entries
  • レミング noun (rodent)
  • 旅鼠 noun (rodent)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • лемминг noun (rodent)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • хөвхөлжин noun (rodent)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • lemen noun (rodent)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • lemen noun (rodent)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • lómundr noun (rodent)

Polish

3 entries
  • leming noun (rodent)
  • leming noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)
  • wyznawca noun (member of a group given to conformity or groupthink)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • lémingue noun (rodent)
  • lêmingue noun (rodent)

Romanian

1 entries
  • leming noun (rodent)

Russian

2 entries
  • ле́мминг noun (rodent)
  • пестру́шка noun (rodent)

Slovene

1 entries
  • léming noun (rodent)

Southern Sami

2 entries
  • luemege noun (rodent)
  • sluemege noun (rodent)

Spanish

1 entries
  • lemming noun (rodent)

Swedish

1 entries
  • lämmel noun (rodent)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • འགྲུལ་བྱི། noun (rodent)

Welsh

2 entries
  • leming noun (rodent)
  • llygod Norwy noun (rodent)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The well-known lemmings, in severe winters, at long intervals, move down from the mountains of Scandinavia in immense numbers, crossing lakes and rivers, eating their way through haystacks, and surmounting every obstacle till they reach the sea, whence very few return.

Source: wiktionary

Lemmings are strongly cohesive, but could be, in organisational terms, highly destructive for the business.

Source: wiktionary

Like a lemming, I followed the crowd, got to the right line and was concentrating hard when queried by the customs officer.

Source: wiktionary

“It’s like the one person did it once and since then everyone has followed like lemmings, they all just copy each other’s behaviour,” said [Paul] Loebenberg.

Source: wiktionary

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