Tom is building a matchstick house.
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Matchstick
//ˈmætʃstɪk//
Synonyms for "matchstick" (4 found)
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Translations
58 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- ثِقَاب noun (piece of wood)
- شَحّاطَة noun (piece of wood)
- شَخَّاطَة noun (piece of wood)
- عُود ثِقَاب noun (piece of wood)
Armenian
1 entries- լուցկի noun (piece of wood)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kibrit noun (piece of wood)
Belarusian
1 entries- запа́лка noun (piece of wood)
Bulgarian
1 entries- кибри́т noun (piece of wood)
Chinese
3 entries- 火拭枝 noun (piece of wood)
- 火挩枝 /火捝枝 noun (piece of wood)
- 番仔火 noun (piece of wood)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 火柴 noun (piece of wood)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 火柴 noun (piece of wood)
Czech
2 entries- sirka noun (piece of wood)
- zápalka noun (piece of wood)
Danish
1 entries- tændstik noun (piece of wood)
Dari
1 entries- کِبْرِیت noun (piece of wood)
Dutch
1 entries- lucifer noun (piece of wood)
Finnish
1 entries- tulitikku noun (piece of wood)
French
1 entries- allumette noun (piece of wood)
Georgian
1 entries- ასანთი noun (piece of wood)
German
2 entries- Streichholz noun (piece of wood)
- Zündholz noun (piece of wood)
Hindi
2 entries- दियासलाई noun (piece of wood)
- माचिस noun (piece of wood)
Hungarian
1 entries- gyufaszál noun (piece of wood)
Icelandic
1 entries- eldspýta noun (piece of wood)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- کِبْریت noun (piece of wood)
Irish
3 entries- cipín noun (piece of wood)
- cipín solais noun (piece of wood)
- lasán noun (piece of wood)
Japanese
1 entries- マッチ noun (piece of wood)
Khmer
1 entries- ឈើគូស noun (piece of wood)
Korean
1 entries- 성냥 noun (piece of wood)
Macedonian
3 entries- кибритче noun (piece of wood)
- чкорче noun (piece of wood)
- шкорче noun (piece of wood)
Malayalam
1 entries- തീപ്പെട്ടി noun (piece of wood)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كبریت noun (piece of wood)
Polish
1 entries- zapałka noun (piece of wood)
Portuguese
1 entries- palito de fósforo noun (piece of wood)
Russian
1 entries- спи́чка noun (piece of wood)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- šȉbica noun (piece of wood)
- ши̏бица noun (piece of wood)
Slovak
1 entries- zápalka noun (piece of wood)
Slovene
1 entries- vžigalica noun (piece of wood)
Swahili
1 entries- kijiti cha kiberiti noun (piece of wood)
Swedish
1 entries- tändsticka noun (piece of wood)
Telugu
1 entries- అగ్గిపుల్ల noun (piece of wood)
Turkish
1 entries- kibrit noun (piece of wood)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сірни́к noun (piece of wood)
Vietnamese
2 entries- diêm noun (piece of wood)
- que diêm noun (piece of wood)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
A piece of wood or cardboard becomes a matchstick once the end has been dipped in a sulfurous compound to turn it into a complete match.
Source: wiktionary
The explosion blew the powder shed to matchsticks.
Source: wiktionary
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