The jig, reel and hornpipe are the most popular Irish dances.
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Reel
//ɹiːl//
Synonyms for "reel" (176 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (52)
Related words (88)
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Noun(6 words)
Verb(5 words)
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More general
16 entriesSynonyms
4 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
has context
3 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
4 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesrelated to
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
used for
2 entriesTranslations
195 translations across 41 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πηνίον noun (spool)
Arabic
1 entries- بَكَرَة noun (spool)
Armenian
2 entries- կոճ noun (spool)
- փաթաթել verb (to wind on a reel)
Bulgarian
4 entries- макара́ noun (spool)
- рийл noun (social media temporary publication)
- рил noun (dance, music)
- трейлър noun (compilation of film)
Catalan
2 entries- carret noun (spool)
- rodet noun (spool)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 捲 /卷 noun (spool)
- 捲筒 /卷筒 noun (spool)
Czech
1 entries- vrávorat verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Danish
4 entries- hjul noun (spool)
- reel noun (dance, music)
- rulle noun (spool)
- rulle noun (machine for winding yarns)
Dutch
2 entries- spoel noun (spool)
- oprollen verb (to wind on a reel)
Esperanto
1 entries- bobeno noun (spool)
Finnish
4 entries- kela noun (spool)
- kela noun (compilation of film)
- laonnostokela noun (device for a harvesting machine)
- rulla noun (machine for winding yarns)
French
4 entries- bobine noun (spool)
- enrouleur noun (machine for winding yarns)
- reel noun (dance, music)
- embobiner verb (to wind on a reel)
Galician
4 entries- argadelo noun (spool)
- debadoira noun (machine for winding yarns)
- sarillo noun (spool)
- sarillo noun (machine for winding yarns)
Georgian
1 entries- ბაბინა noun (spool)
German
4 entries- Demoband noun (compilation of film)
- Haspel noun (device for a harvesting machine)
- Spule noun (spool)
- Trommel noun (spool)
Greek
3 entries- καρούλι noun (spool)
- μπομπίνα noun (spool)
- μπομπίνα noun (compilation of film)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pōkaʻa noun (spool)
Hebrew
1 entries- רילז noun (social media temporary publication)
Hindi
3 entries- अटेरन noun (spool)
- अटेरना verb (to wind on a reel)
- लपेटना verb (to spin or revolve repeatedly)
Hungarian
4 entries- cséve noun (spool)
- gombolyag noun (spool)
- henger noun (spool)
- motolla noun (spool)
Ingrian
1 entries- katuška noun (spool)
Irish
3 entries- cor noun (dance, music)
- roithleán noun (spool)
- ríl noun (dance, music)
Italian
1 entries- barcollare verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Japanese
1 entries- リール noun (spool)
Korean
2 entries- 릴 noun (spool)
- 실패 noun (spool)
Latin
2 entries- alabrum noun (spool)
- titubō verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Macedonian
1 entries- ма́кара noun (spool)
Manx
1 entries- reel noun (dance, music)
Māori
4 entries- pōkaimiro noun (spool)
- takatakai noun (spool)
- keha verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
- kōkeke verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Norwegian
3 entries- skjekle verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
- stolpre verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
- vakle verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- rull noun (spool)
- spole noun (spool)
- spole noun (machine for winding yarns)
- trommel noun (spool)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- استاج noun (spool)
- بوبین noun (spool)
- ماسوره noun (spool)
- مقره noun (spool)
Polish
4 entries- rolka noun (social media temporary publication)
- chwiać się (na nogach) verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
- krążyć verb (to spin or revolve repeatedly)
- kręcić się verb (to spin or revolve repeatedly)
Portuguese
4 entries- ril noun (dance, music)
- sarilho noun (spool)
- enrolar verb (to wind on a reel)
- titubear verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Romanian
2 entries- bobină noun (spool)
- mosor noun (spool)
Russian
4 entries- бараба́н noun (spool)
- боби́на noun (spool)
- во́рот noun (spool)
- кабеста́н noun (spool)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- ridhil noun (dance, music)
- ruidhle noun (dance, music)
- rìdhle noun (dance, music)
Spanish
4 entries- carrete noun (spool)
- reel (ril) noun (social media temporary publication)
- bobinar verb (to wind on a reel)
- continuar estupefacto verb (to be in shock)
Swedish
4 entries- reel noun (dance, music)
- rulle noun (compilation of film)
- rulla verb (to spin or revolve repeatedly)
- spola verb (to spin or revolve repeatedly)
Telugu
1 entries- తూలు verb (to walk shakily or unsteadily)
Welsh
1 entries- ril noun (dance, music)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
I saw some English female soldiers in yesterday night's news reel. For some, you couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, but the majority were rather feminine, and it didn't feel that grotesque.
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Tom can reel off the names of the capitals of all European countries.
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The Scottish Reel should be played with a strong downbeat on the first note of each bar.
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