The boat was alongside the quay.
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Quay
//keɪ//
Synonyms for "quay" (36 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (10)
Related words (18)
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14 entrieshas context
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2 entriesrelated to
3 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 51 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- رَصِيف الْمِينَاء noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Basque
1 entries- kaia noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Belarusian
1 entries- на́бярэжная noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кей noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- приста́нище noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Catalan
2 entries- embarcador noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- moll noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 埠頭 /埠头 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- 碼頭 /码头 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- 船埠 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Cornish
1 entries- kay noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Czech
3 entries- nábřeží noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- přístaviště noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- přístavní hráz noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Danish
1 entries- kaj noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Dutch
2 entries- kaai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- kade noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Esperanto
1 entries- kajo noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Estonian
1 entries- kai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Faroese
2 entries- kai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- kei noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Finnish
1 entries- laituri noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
French
1 entries- quai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Galician
4 entries- caes noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- cai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- embarcadoiro noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- peirao noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Georgian
3 entries- ნავთსადგომი noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- ნავმისადგომი noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- ნავსაბმელი noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
German
3 entries- Anlegestelle noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- Kai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- Pier noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Greek
1 entries- προκυμαία noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Hebrew
1 entries- מֶזַח noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Hungarian
2 entries- rakodópart noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- rakpart noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Indonesian
1 entries- dermaga noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Irish
1 entries- cé noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Italian
1 entries- banchina noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Japanese
2 entries- 埠頭 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- 波止場 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Korean
1 entries- 부두 noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Latvian
1 entries- piestātne noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Lithuanian
1 entries- prieplauka noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Macedonian
2 entries- кеј noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- пристаниште noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Malay
2 entries- dermaga noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- jeti noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Manx
1 entries- keiy noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tlalmantli noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kai noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- اسكله noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- ریختم noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Polish
2 entries- molo noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- nabrzeże noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Portuguese
3 entries- ancoradouro noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- cais noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- embarcadouro noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Romanian
1 entries- chei noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Russian
4 entries- мол noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- на́бережная noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- при́стань noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- прича́л noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Sanskrit
1 entries- घट्ट noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- laimrig noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dȍk noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- kej noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- mȏl noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- prìstanīšte noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Slovak
1 entries- nábreží noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Slovene
1 entries- pomol noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Spanish
2 entries- embarcadero noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- muelle noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Swedish
1 entries- kaj noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Tagalog
1 entries- pantalan noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Turkish
2 entries- iskele noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- rıhtım noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Ukrainian
1 entries- на́бережна noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Vietnamese
2 entries- bờ xây noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- ke noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Welsh
2 entries- cei noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
- ceiau noun (structure for loading and unloading vessels)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
She was waiting at the quay as the ship came in.
Source: tatoeba (273397)
The boat moved slowly away from the quay.
Source: tatoeba (273439)
He was sitting on the quay.
Source: tatoeba (303258)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.