Portmanteau

//pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ//

Synonyms for "portmanteau" (13 found)

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Noun(2 words)
blendportmanteau word

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Related words (6)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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is a

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related to

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Translations

37 translations across 27 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • baule noun (case)

Arabic

1 entries
  • حَقِيبَة سَفَر noun (case)

Breton

2 entries
  • mal noun (case)
  • malizenn noun (case)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • голям кожен куфар noun (case)

Czech

1 entries
  • kontaminace noun (case)

Dutch

2 entries
  • koffer noun (case)
  • valies noun (case)

Estonian

3 entries
  • kohver noun (case)
  • laadik noun (case)
  • reisikott noun (case)

Finnish

1 entries
  • matkalaukku noun (case)

French

3 entries
  • malle noun (case)
  • portemanteau noun (case)
  • valise noun (case)

German

1 entries
  • Koffer noun (case)

Interlingua

1 entries
  • valise noun (case)

Latin

1 entries
  • averta noun (case)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • lagaminas noun (case)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • koffert noun (case)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • koffert noun (case)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • خرج noun (case)

Persian

1 entries
  • چمدان noun (case)

Polish

1 entries
  • waliza noun (case)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • maleta noun (case)
  • valise noun (case)

Romanian

1 entries
  • valiză noun (case)

Russian

3 entries
  • бау́л noun (case)
  • дорожная су́мка noun (case)
  • чемода́н noun (case)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • кожни кофер noun (case)

Spanish

2 entries
  • maleta noun (case)
  • valija noun (case)

Swedish

1 entries
  • kappsäck noun (case)

Turkish

1 entries
  • bavul noun (case)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • va li noun (case)

Yoruba

1 entries
  • pọtimáńtò noun (case)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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Slacktivism is a portmanteau formed out of the words slacker and activism.

Source: tatoeba (348407)

In calculus, the term varifold is a portmanteau of "variational manifold."

Source: tatoeba (8931009)

My favorite Yiddish neologism is "faktazye" for science fiction, a portmanteau of the words for "fact" and "fantasy."

Source: tatoeba (10186564)

French activists use the portmanteau "catholaïcité" for the fake secularism displayed by the French state.

Source: tatoeba (11690916)

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