I kissed him under the mistletoe.
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Mistletoe
//ˈmɪs(ə)ltəʊ//
Synonyms for "mistletoe" (8 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (2)
Related words (4)
Noun(4 words)
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Translations
114 translations across 85 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- агъо noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Afrikaans
2 entries- maretak noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Albanian
1 entries- veshtull noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Amharic
1 entries- ተቀጥላ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἰξός noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Arabic
2 entries- دِبْق noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- نَبَات طُفَيْلِيّ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Aragonese
3 entries- visca noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visco noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- vizco noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Armenian
1 entries- ճագոմ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Aromanian
2 entries- vescu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- vãscu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Asturian
2 entries- arfueyu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- marfueyu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- öksə noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- öksəotu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Basque
1 entries- mihura noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Belarusian
1 entries- амяла́ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Bulgarian
1 entries- име́л noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Burmese
1 entries- ကျီးပေါင်း noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Cahuilla
1 entries- cháyal noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Catalan
1 entries- vesc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᏲᏓᏟ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 槲寄生 noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 槲寄生 noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Cimbrian
1 entries- vistscho noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Cornish
1 entries- ughelvarr noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Corsican
1 entries- vischju noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Czech
1 entries- jmelí noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Danish
1 entries- mistelten noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Dutch
3 entries- maretak noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- vogellijm noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Esperanto
2 entries- blanka visko noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visko noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Estonian
1 entries- puuvõõrik noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Faroese
1 entries- mistilteinur noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Finnish
2 entries- misteli noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- mistelinoksa noun (sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration)
French
1 entries- gui noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Friulian
1 entries- visc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Galician
2 entries- maroxo noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visgo noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Gamilaraay
1 entries- baan noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Georgian
1 entries- ფითრი noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
German
1 entries- Mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Greek
2 entries- γκι noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- ιξός noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Hausa
1 entries- kauci noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Hebrew
1 entries- דִּבְקוֹן noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Hungarian
1 entries- fagyöngy noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Icelandic
1 entries- mistilteinn noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Ido
1 entries- mistelo noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Irish
1 entries- drualus noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Italian
1 entries- vischio noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Japanese
1 entries- 宿木 noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Kabardian
1 entries- жыгкугъу noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Korean
1 entries- 겨우살이 noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Latin
1 entries- viscum noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Latvian
1 entries- āmuļi noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Lithuanian
1 entries- amalas noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- jemjelica noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Mëspel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Macedonian
1 entries- имела noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Manx
1 entries- geul noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Middle English
2 entries- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- mistelto noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Māori
3 entries- kohuorangi noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- pirinoa noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- pirirangi noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Navajo
1 entries- dahtsʼaaʼ noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- misteltein noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- misteltein noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Occitan
1 entries- vesc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Old English
2 entries- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- misteltān noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Old Norse
1 entries- mistilteinn noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Persian
1 entries- دارواش noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Kusskjriekje noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- Mistelplaunt noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Polish
2 entries- jemioła noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- jemioła noun (sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration)
Portuguese
3 entries- erva-de-passarinho noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visco noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visgo noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Romanian
1 entries- vâsc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Russian
1 entries- оме́ла noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Sardinian
2 entries- biscu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- viscu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Scots
1 entries- messeldeu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- uil-ìoc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- imela noun (sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration)
- imèla noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- имѐла noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Slovak
1 entries- imelo noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Slovene
1 entries- omela noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Spanish
3 entries- liga noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- muérdago noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- visco noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Swedish
2 entries- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- mistel noun (sprig of one such plant used as a Christmas decoration)
Tagalog
1 entries- ligas noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Turkish
1 entries- ökse otu noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Tày
3 entries- hán fặc noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- lằng ca noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
- phác noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Ukrainian
1 entries- омела noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- jemjel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Venetan
1 entries- viscio noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tầm gửi noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Welsh
1 entries- uchelwydd noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
West-Frisian
1 entries- mistel noun (any of several hemiparasitic evergreen plants of the order Santalales)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
I used the mistletoe as an excuse to kiss him.
Source: tatoeba (4057995)
From the center of the ceiling of this kitchen, old Wardle had just suspended with his own hands a huge branch of mistletoe.
Source: tatoeba (5680732)
A more barbarous form of these rejoicings took place among the rude peoples of the north where great blocks of wood blazed in honor of Odin and Thor, and sacrifices of men and cattle were made to them. Mistletoe was cut then from the sacred oaks with a golden sickle by the Prince of the Druids.
Source: tatoeba (5681793)
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