The peddler carried a big bundle on his back.
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Peddler
//ˈpɛdlə//
Synonyms for "peddler" (37 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
Related word relations
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Translations
104 translations across 39 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μεταβολεύς noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Arabic
2 entries- بَائِع مُتَجَوِّل noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- جَوَّال noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Armenian
1 entries- չարչի noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- çərçi noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Belarusian
4 entries- афе́ня noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- карабе́йнік noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- каро́бачнік noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- піліпо́н noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Bulgarian
1 entries- амбулантен търговец noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小販 /小贩 noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Czech
1 entries- podomní prodavač noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Dutch
2 entries- marskramer noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- venter noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Esperanto
1 entries- kolportisto noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Finnish
2 entries- kaupustelija noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- kulkukauppias noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
French
2 entries- colporteur noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- marchand ambulant noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Galician
4 entries- bofón noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- bufariñeiro noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- chioleiro noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- mercachifre noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
German
4 entries- Fabulant noun (fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator)
- Hausierer noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- Höker noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- Krämer noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Greek
3 entries- γυρολόγος noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- διαδότης noun (fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator)
- διαδότρια noun (fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator)
Hungarian
3 entries- házaló noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- vigéc noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- ügynök noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Indonesian
1 entries- pedagang asongan noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Irish
4 entries- fear cairte noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- hácaeir noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- joltaeir noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- mangaire noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Italian
2 entries- padellaio noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- vucumprà noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Japanese
4 entries- 鬻人 noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- 鬻人 noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- 鬻女 noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- 鬻女 noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Kumyk
2 entries- табушдурувчу noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- элтивчю noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Latin
2 entries- circulātor noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- circulātrix noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Macedonian
2 entries- праматар noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- фанатизи́ран заго́ворник noun (fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- mcuuzi noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Norman
3 entries- chinneux noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- colporteux noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- hotteux noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kramkar noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- kremmar noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Occitan
2 entries- colejaire noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- mercadieiron noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- اسكیجی noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- بوغچهجی noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- قولتقجی noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Polish
1 entries- domokrążca noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Portuguese
4 entries- ambulante noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- camelô noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- mascate noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- prestamista noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Romanian
4 entries- coropcar noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- marchitan noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- negustor ambulant noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- telal noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Russian
4 entries- коробе́йник noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- лото́чник noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- офе́ня noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- разно́счик noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ceannaiche-siubhail noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Spanish
4 entries- buhonero noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- mantero noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- pregonero noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- topmantero noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Swedish
4 entries- Krösa-Maja noun (fake-news disseminator; conspiracy-theory propagator)
- handelsresande noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- handlande noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- hälare noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Turkish
1 entries- çerçi noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Ukrainian
3 entries- коробе́йник noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- офе́ня noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- розно́шувач noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Welsh
2 entries- pacmon noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
- pedler noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Yiddish
1 entries- פּעדלער noun (itinerant seller of small goods)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
When I was very young, my father died. His younger brother, due to the vicissitudes of the times and to his own laziness, dissipated his own fortune and afterwards became a peddler of writing materials. He often came to our house, but when he came, my mother would scold him and he would be troubled.
Source: tatoeba (635865)
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot; A bundle of toys he had flung on his back, And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
Source: tatoeba (6399679)
He was a wandering peddler.
Source: tatoeba (8195927)
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