Loam

//loʊm//

Synonyms for "loam" (6 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (1)

Related words (3)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

2 entries

derived

4 entries

has context

1 entries

is a

1 entries

related to

7 entries

Translations

42 translations across 24 languages.

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Bavarian German

2 entries
  • Lahm noun (type of soil)
  • Loam noun (type of soil)

Catalan

1 entries
  • terra franca noun (type of soil)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 亞砂土 /亚砂土 noun (type of soil)
  • 壚坶 /垆坶 noun (type of soil)
  • 壤土 noun (type of soil)
  • 沃土 noun (type of soil)

Crimean Tatar

1 entries
  • qumbalçıq noun (type of soil)

Czech

2 entries
  • hlína noun (type of soil)
  • půda noun (type of soil)

Danish

1 entries
  • ler noun (type of soil)

Dutch

2 entries
  • leem noun (type of soil)
  • belemen verb (to cover or fill with loam)

Estonian

1 entries
  • liivsavimullad noun (type of soil)

Finnish

3 entries
  • hiue noun (type of soil)
  • muottihiekka noun (mixture for making moulds)
  • peittää hiukeeseen verb (to cover or fill with loam)

French

2 entries
  • sol franc noun (type of soil)
  • terre grasse noun (type of soil)

Galician

3 entries
  • mardeña noun (type of soil)
  • marga noun (type of soil)
  • marxa noun (type of soil)

German

3 entries
  • Formsand noun (mixture for making moulds)
  • Lehm noun (type of soil)
  • einlehmen verb (to cover or fill with loam)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • vályog noun (type of soil)

Italian

1 entries
  • terra grassa noun (type of soil)

Japanese

1 entries
  • ローム noun (type of soil)

Māori

3 entries
  • oneharuru noun (type of soil)
  • onematua noun (type of soil)
  • tuatara noun (type of soil)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • leir noun (type of soil)

Polish

2 entries
  • glina zwykła noun (type of soil)
  • noun (type of soil)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • solo franco noun (type of soil)

Russian

1 entries
  • сугли́нок noun (type of soil)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • ìlovača noun (type of soil)

Spanish

1 entries
  • suelo franco noun (type of soil)

Swedish

3 entries
  • formsand noun (mixture for making moulds)
  • lerjord noun (type of soil)
  • mylla noun (type of soil)

Welsh

1 entries
  • lom noun (type of soil)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty / enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, / Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is / earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam (whereto he / was converted) might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. / O, that that earth which kept the world in awe / Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!

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We need to find some good loam if we want to grow enough food to live on.

Source: tatoeba (11154507)

The soil should be full of loam, a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic material.

Source: tatoeba (12045722)

Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer-barrel?

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