A fussy referee can ruin a bout.
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Referee
//ˌɹɛfəˈɹiː//
Synonyms for "referee" (56 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (28)
Related word relations
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7 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesat location
4 entriescapable of
3 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
Translations
173 translations across 49 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- βραβευτής noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- βραβεύω verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Arabic
2 entries- حَكَم noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- حَكَم noun (person who settles a dispute)
Armenian
1 entries- մրցավար noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Basque
1 entries- epaile noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Belarusian
4 entries- арбі́тар noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- арбі́тр noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- рэферы́ noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- суддзя́ noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Bulgarian
4 entries- арбитър noun (person who settles a dispute)
- ре́фер noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- референт noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- рецензент noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
Catalan
2 entries- àrbitre noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- àrbitre noun (person who settles a dispute)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 裁判 noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- 證明人 /证明人 noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- akem noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Czech
1 entries- rozhodčí noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Danish
2 entries- dommer noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- dømme verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Dutch
3 entries- arbiter noun (person who settles a dispute)
- referentie noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- scheidsrechter noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Esperanto
3 entries- arbitraciisto noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- decidisto noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- arbitracii verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Faroese
1 entries- dómari noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Finnish
4 entries- arvioija noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- erotuomari noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- mattotuomari noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- sovittelija noun (person who settles a dispute)
French
3 entries- arbitre noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- arbitre noun (person who settles a dispute)
- arbitrer verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
German
4 entries- Befürworter noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- Empfehlungsgeber noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- Lektor noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- Ombudsfrau noun (person who settles a dispute)
Greek
4 entries- διαιτητής noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- διαιτητής noun (person who settles a dispute)
- εισηγητής noun (person who settles a dispute)
- κριτής noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
Greenlandic
1 entries- dommeri noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- abit noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Hebrew
1 entries- שופט noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Hungarian
2 entries- bíró noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- spori noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Irish
4 entries- measúnóir noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- moltóir noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- moltóir noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- réiteoir noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Italian
2 entries- arbitro noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- arbitrare verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Japanese
2 entries- レフェリー noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- 審判 noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Khmer
1 entries- អាជ្ញាកណ្ដាល noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Korean
4 entries- 신원보증인 noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- 심사원 noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- 심판 noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- 중재인 noun (person who settles a dispute)
Lower Sorbian
2 entries- sudnica noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- sudnik noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Arbitter noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Macedonian
4 entries- ве́штак noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- препора́чател noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- су́дија noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- су́дија noun (person who settles a dispute)
Malay
2 entries- pengadil noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- wasit noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Māori
4 entries- kaiwawao noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- rewherī noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- rewherī noun (person who settles a dispute)
- rewherī verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- dommer noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- dommar noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Spellvemedla noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Polish
3 entries- arbiter noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- sędzia noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- sędziować verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Portuguese
4 entries- juiz noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- juiz noun (person who settles a dispute)
- árbitro noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- árbitro noun (person who settles a dispute)
Romanian
4 entries- arbitru noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- arbitru noun (person who settles a dispute)
- judecător noun (person who settles a dispute)
- referent noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
Russian
4 entries- ампа́йр noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- арби́тр noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- арби́тр noun (person who settles a dispute)
- поручи́тель noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- rèitear noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- recènzent noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- recènzentica noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- sudija noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- sudija noun (person who settles a dispute)
Slovak
2 entries- rozhodca noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- rozhodkyňa noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Spanish
4 entries- referee noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- revisor noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- réferi noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- árbitro noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Swedish
4 entries- domare noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- referens noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- skiljedomare noun (person who settles a dispute)
- döma verb (to act as a judge of a game or contest)
Thai
1 entries- ผู้ตัดสิน noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Turkish
2 entries- bilirkişi noun (expert who judges a manuscript)
- hakem noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Ukrainian
3 entries- арбі́тр noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- рефері́ noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
- суддя́ noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Vietnamese
1 entries- trọng tài noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Welsh
4 entries- canolwr noun (person who settles a dispute)
- canolwr noun (person who writes a letter of reference)
- cyflafareddwr noun (person who settles a dispute)
- dyfarnwr noun (sport: umpire, judge of a game)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The captain appealed to the referee against the decision.
Source: tatoeba (63178)
A referee should not favor either side.
Source: tatoeba (268944)
The referee blew his whistle to end the match.
Source: tatoeba (268945)
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