Don't wash your dirty linen in public.
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Linen
//ˈlɪnɪn//
Synonyms for "linen" (107 found)
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Closest matches (22)
Strong matches (32)
Related words (53)
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7 entriesMore specific
5 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
9 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
30 entriesShowing 16 of 30 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
9 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
used for
12 entriesTranslations
104 translations across 53 languages.
Aghwan
1 entries- 𐕜𐔴𐕌 noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Albanian
1 entries- shag noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λίνον noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- ὀθόνη noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Arabic
1 entries- كَتَّان noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Armenian
1 entries- քաթան noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- kətan noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- paltar noun (items)
Belarusian
1 entries- бялі́зна noun (items)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ленено платно noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Catalan
2 entries- llenceria noun (items)
- lli noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 亞麻布 /亚麻布 noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- 亞麻製品 /亚麻制品 noun (items)
- 麻布 noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Czech
1 entries- plátno noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Danish
2 entries- hør noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lærred noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Dutch
2 entries- doek noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linnen noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Esperanto
1 entries- lino noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Faroese
2 entries- hørur noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lín noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Finnish
3 entries- liina noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- liinavaate noun (items)
- pellava noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
French
4 entries- lin noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linge noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linge noun (items)
- toile noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Galician
2 entries- lenzo noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- liño noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Georgian
1 entries- სელი noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
German
2 entries- Heimtextilien noun (items)
- Leinen noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Greek
2 entries- λινό noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- λινόχρους noun (colour)
Hebrew
1 entries- פשתן noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Hungarian
2 entries- lenvászon noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- vászon noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Ingrian
1 entries- pellovas noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Irish
1 entries- línéadach noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Italian
1 entries- lino noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Japanese
4 entries- リネン noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- リネン製品 noun (items)
- リンネル noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- 亜麻布 noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Kazakh
2 entries- зығыр noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- кенеп мата noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Khmer
1 entries- ធោវន្តពស្ត្រ noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Latin
2 entries- carbasa noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linteum noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Latvian
3 entries- lini noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linkrāsa noun (colour)
- veļa noun (items)
Macedonian
2 entries- ка́тун noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- лен noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Mongolian
4 entries- амны алчуур noun (items)
- зотон noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- орны даавуу noun (items)
- хөвөн даавуу noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- lin noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lintøy noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lintøy noun (items)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- lin noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lintøy noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lintøy noun (items)
Old Norse
2 entries- hǫrr noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lín noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چاماشیر noun (items)
Persian
1 entries- کتان noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Polish
4 entries- bielizna noun (items)
- bielizna osobista noun (items)
- bielizna pościelowa noun (items)
- bielizna stołowa noun (items)
Portuguese
2 entries- linho noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- roupa noun (items)
Romanian
2 entries- in noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lenjerie noun (items)
Russian
3 entries- бельё noun (items)
- полотно́ noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- холст noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- anart noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- anart noun (items)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- platno noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- prten noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Spanish
4 entries- linge noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lino noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linocros noun (colour)
- ropa blanca noun (items)
Swahili
1 entries- katani noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Swedish
2 entries- linne noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- linne noun (items)
Tocharian B
1 entries- kenek noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Turkish
1 entries- keten noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Ugaritic
1 entries- 𐎔𐎘𐎚 noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Ukrainian
1 entries- біли́зна noun (items)
Welsh
4 entries- lliain noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- lliain noun (items)
- llieiniau noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
- llieiniau noun (items)
Yiddish
1 entries- לײַוונט noun (thread or cloth made from flax fiber)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Let's not wash our dirty linen in public.
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Only a poor man knows what such a passion costs in cab-hire, gloves, linen, tailor's bills, and the like. If the Platonic stage lasts a little too long, the affair grows ruinous.
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The bed linen changes every week.
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