Midge

//mɪd͡ʒ//

Synonyms for "midge" (49 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

brownie crumb dot drop droplet dwarf elf fleck flyspeck gnat

Strong matches (15)

gnome grain homunculus insect iota jot lilliputian manikin microbe microorganism midget

Noun(4 words)

midgey midgie midgy minge

Related words (24)

minim minutia minutiae mite mote particle peewee pinhead pinpoint pip squeak pip-squeak point pygmy runt scrap shrimp snip snippet speck tittle

Show 3 more words

tom thumb vanishing point wart

Noun(1 words)

stout

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

1 entries

gnat

Related terms

1 entries

gnat

derived

30 entries

Midge Hall antimidge aphid midge apple leaf midge apple midge barley midge biting midge dung midge frog-biting midge gall midge mackerel midge meniscus midge midge cap midge grass midge net midgeling

Showing 16 of 30 words.

has context

1 entries

fishing

is a

2 entries

fly gnat

related to

8 entries

bait ceratopogonidae chaoboridae chironomidae diptera fly lure madge

Translations

42 translations across 32 languages.

Albanian

2 entries

harrje noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
mushicë noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Armenian

1 entries

մլակ noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

muz noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
mız noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

摇蚊 noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Czech

2 entries

pakomár noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
pakomárec noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Danish

1 entries

myg noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Dutch

1 entries

mug noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Finnish

1 entries

sääski noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

French

1 entries

moucheron noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

German

1 entries

Mücke noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Ingrian

1 entries

moška noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Irish

1 entries

míoltóg noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Italian

1 entries

moscerino noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Japanese

1 entries

ユスリカ noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Korean

1 entries

모기 noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Latin

1 entries

culex noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Latvian

1 entries

miģele noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Low German

1 entries

Mügg noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Manx

2 entries

meeyl noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
quill noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Māori

4 entries

nahonaho noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
namupoto noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
naonao noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
pōngarongaro noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Nandi

1 entries

kipcharkarario noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Norman

1 entries

bibet noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Norwegian

2 entries

knott noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
mygg noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Polish

1 entries

kuczman noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Portuguese

1 entries

mosquito noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Russian

1 entries

мошка noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

meanbh-chuileag noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Spanish

2 entries

jején noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
mosquito noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Swedish

1 entries

mygg noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Ukrainian

2 entries

мошка noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)
мушка noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Vietnamese

1 entries

ruồi nhuế noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Welsh

1 entries

gwybedyn noun (fly of family Chironomidae or Ceratopogonidae)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I don't know whether I got this bite from a midge or a mosquito.

Source: tatoeba (8989377)

I was bitten by a pesky midge during our camping trip.

Source: tatoeba (12079153)

"I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!"

Source: wiktionary

Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.

Source: wiktionary

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