In Korea, there's a popular theory that says that: "If you eat a quarter of an Iceberg lettuce, you will fall asleep". Thus, amongst truck drivers in Korea, lettuce is known as something that should not be eaten before work.
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Lettuce
//ˈlɛt.ɪs//
Synonyms for "lettuce" (29 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
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5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesat location
5 entriesdbpedia genus
1 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
has context
2 entriesis a
8 entriesmade of
1 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
190 translations across 94 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- blaarslaai noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- kropslaai noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Albanian
4 entries- marule noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- marule noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- sallatë noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- sallatë noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θρίδαξ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- θρῖδαξ noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Arabic
4 entries- خس noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- خس noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- خس noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- خس noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Armenian
4 entries- կաթնուկ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- հազար noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- մառոլ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- սալաթ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Asturian
1 entries- llechuga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- kahı noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Basque
1 entries- uraza noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Belarusian
3 entries- лату́к noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- сала́т noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- сала́т-лату́к noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Bengali
1 entries- লেটুস noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Bole
1 entries- letas noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Bulgarian
2 entries- книжни пари noun (US paper currency)
- мару́ля noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Burmese
2 entries- ဆလတ် noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- ဆလတ်ရွက် noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Catalan
2 entries- enciam noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- lletuga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- کاھوو noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Central Sierra Miwok
1 entries- palá·ṭikin·a noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Cherokee
2 entries- ᎠᎪᏍᏓᎩᏍᏗ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- ᎠᎪᏍᏓᎩᏍᏗ noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 生菜 noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- 生菜 noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 生菜 noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- 萵苣 /莴苣 noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Coptic
1 entries- ⲱⲃ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Czech
2 entries- hlávkový salát noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- hlávkový salát noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Danish
1 entries- salat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Dutch
4 entries- flappen noun (US paper currency)
- salade noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salade noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- sla noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Esperanto
2 entries- laktuko noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- laktuko noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Estonian
1 entries- aedsalat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Finnish
4 entries- lehtisalaatti noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- lehtisalaatti noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- salaatinlehti noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- salaatti noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
French
3 entries- laitue noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- oseille noun (US paper currency)
- salade noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Friulian
1 entries- latuie noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Galician
2 entries- leituga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- leituga noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Georgian
1 entries- სალათა noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
German
4 entries- Gartensalat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- Lattich noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- Salat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- Salat noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Greek
4 entries- λεφτά noun (US paper currency)
- μαρούλι noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- μαρούλι noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- χρήματα noun (US paper currency)
Hausa
1 entries- latas noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Hawaiian
1 entries- lekuke noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Hebrew
2 entries- חַסָּה noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- חסה noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Hindi
2 entries- लेटिष noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- सलाद पत्ता noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Hungarian
3 entries- fejes saláta noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- saláta noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- saláta noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Icelandic
1 entries- salat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Ido
2 entries- latugo noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- latugo noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Indonesian
1 entries- selada noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Irish
1 entries- leitís noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Italian
1 entries- lattuga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Japanese
2 entries- レタス noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- レタス noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Jeju
1 entries- 부루 noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Kazakh
1 entries- салат noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Korean
1 entries- 상추 noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Lao
2 entries- ຈອກ noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- ຜັກສະລັດ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Latin
2 entries- lactūca noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- lactūca noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Latvian
1 entries- salāti noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Lithuanian
2 entries- salota noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salotos noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Low German
1 entries- Slaad noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Macedonian
2 entries- марула noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- салата noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Malay
1 entries- selada noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Maltese
2 entries- ħassa noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- ħassa noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Mongolian
1 entries- салатны навч noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Māori
2 entries- rētihi noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- rētihi noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Nahuatl
1 entries- quillechuca noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Navajo
2 entries- chʼil łigai noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- chʼil łigaii noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Norman
1 entries- laitue noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- xes noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Norwegian
1 entries- bladsalat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Occitan
2 entries- lachuga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- laituga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Old English
1 entries- leahtric noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- шалата noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- шалата noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Persian
2 entries- کاهو noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- کاهو noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Piedmontese
1 entries- laitùa noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Polish
4 entries- kapucha noun (US paper currency)
- kapusta noun (US paper currency)
- sałata noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- sałata noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Portuguese
3 entries- alface noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- alface noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- verdinhas noun (US paper currency)
Quechua
1 entries- piliyuyu noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Romanian
3 entries- lăptucă noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salată noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salată noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Russian
4 entries- капу́ста noun (US paper currency)
- лату́к noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- сала́т noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- сала́т noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Sardinian
4 entries- lattuca noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- latuca noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- làtia noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- làtua noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- càl amh noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- càl amh noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- leatas noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- leatas noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- zelena salata noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- zelena salata noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Sicilian
2 entries- lattuca noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- nzalata noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Slovene
2 entries- solata noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- solata noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Spanish
2 entries- lechuga noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- lechuga noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Swahili
2 entries- letusi noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- saladi noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Swedish
2 entries- sallad noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- sallat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Tagalog
1 entries- letsugas noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Taos
1 entries- lecùgoʼóne noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Thai
2 entries- ผักกาดหอม noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- ผักสลัด noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Tibetan
1 entries- རྗེན་ཚལ noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Turkish
2 entries- marul noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- marul noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Ukrainian
2 entries- сала́т noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- сала́т-лату́к noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Uzbek
2 entries- karam noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salat noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Venetan
2 entries- salata noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- sałata noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rau diếp noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Volapük
2 entries- latüg noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- salad noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Walloon
1 entries- salåde noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Welsh
2 entries- letys noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- letysen noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Winnebago
2 entries- nąą’apxete noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- nąą’apxete noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Yiddish
4 entries- סאַלאַט noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- סאַלאַט noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
- שאַלאַטן noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
- שאַלאַטן noun (the leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable or dish)
Zhuang
1 entries- byaekaengjgwx noun (an edible plant, Lactuca)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
More than iron, more than lead, more than gold I need electricity. I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber. I need it for my dreams.
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Is it OK to feed my dog lettuce?
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Tom ate my bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
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