Tom picked up a paintbrush and started helping Mary paint the fence.
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Paintbrush
//ˈpeɪntˌbɹʌʃ//
Synonyms for "paintbrush" (33 found)
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Closest matches (7)
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Related words (16)
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1 entriesTranslations
69 translations across 50 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فُرْشَاة الطِلَاء noun (thin brush)
Armenian
1 entries- վրձին noun (thin brush)
Belarusian
3 entries- пэ́ндзаль noun (thin brush)
- пэ́ндзлік noun (thin brush)
- пэ́ндзьлік noun (thin brush)
Bulgarian
1 entries- че́тка noun (thin brush)
Buryat
1 entries- биирэ noun (thin brush)
Catalan
1 entries- pinzell noun (thin brush)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 油漆刷 noun (thin brush)
- 畫筆 /画笔 noun (thin brush)
Czech
2 entries- malířský štětec noun (thin brush)
- štětec noun (thin brush)
Danish
1 entries- pensel noun (thin brush)
Dutch
1 entries- penseel noun (thin brush)
Esperanto
1 entries- peniko noun (thin brush)
Faroese
1 entries- pensil noun (thin brush)
Finnish
1 entries- sivellin noun (thin brush)
French
1 entries- pinceau noun (thin brush)
Friulian
1 entries- pinel noun (thin brush)
German
3 entries- Farbpinsel noun (thin brush)
- Malerpinsel noun (thin brush)
- Pinsel noun (thin brush)
Greek
1 entries- πινέλο noun (thin brush)
Hebrew
2 entries- מִבְרֶשֶׁת noun (thin brush)
- מִכְחוֹל noun (thin brush)
Hindi
1 entries- तूलिका noun (thin brush)
Hungarian
1 entries- ecset noun (thin brush)
Icelandic
1 entries- pensill noun (thin brush)
Irish
2 entries- cleiteán noun (thin brush)
- scuab phéinteála noun (thin brush)
Italian
1 entries- pennello noun (thin brush)
Japanese
2 entries- 筆 noun (thin brush)
- 絵筆 noun (thin brush)
Kazakh
1 entries- қылқалам noun (thin brush)
Korean
2 entries- 붓 noun (thin brush)
- 화필 noun (thin brush)
Latin
1 entries- pēnicillum noun (thin brush)
Latvian
2 entries- ota noun (thin brush)
- sarene noun (thin brush)
Lower Tanana
1 entries- be'aɬ xwdedebeni noun (thin brush)
Macedonian
1 entries- четка noun (thin brush)
Maltese
1 entries- pinzell noun (thin brush)
Mongolian
2 entries- багс noun (thin brush)
- бийр noun (thin brush)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- pensel noun (thin brush)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- pensel noun (thin brush)
Occitan
2 entries- pincèl noun (thin brush)
- pincèu noun (thin brush)
Polish
2 entries- pędzel noun (thin brush)
- pędzelek noun (thin brush)
Portuguese
1 entries- pincel noun (thin brush)
Romanian
1 entries- pensulă noun (thin brush)
Russian
2 entries- ки́сточка noun (thin brush)
- кисть noun (thin brush)
Sicilian
1 entries- pinzeḍḍu noun (thin brush)
Slovak
1 entries- štetec noun (thin brush)
Spanish
1 entries- pincel noun (thin brush)
Swedish
2 entries- målarpensel noun (thin brush)
- pensel noun (thin brush)
Tagalog
2 entries- brotsa noun (thin brush)
- pinsel noun (thin brush)
Tamil
1 entries- தூரிகை noun (thin brush)
Thai
1 entries- พู่กัน noun (thin brush)
Turkish
1 entries- boya fırçası noun (thin brush)
Ukrainian
3 entries- пе́нзель noun (thin brush)
- пе́нзлик noun (thin brush)
- щі́точка noun (thin brush)
Volapük
1 entries- pensit noun (thin brush)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּענדזל noun (thin brush)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Tom put down his paintbrush.
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Tom had a paintbrush in his hand.
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Tom set down his paintbrush.
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