I can't keep this up. It's an emotional roller coaster around here and all we have to do is look at the boss's face to know whether everybody is going to be happy or sad.
Source: tatoeba (33439)
Roller
//ˈɹəʊlə//
Synonyms for "roller" (182 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (54)
Related words (91)
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11 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
89 entriesShowing 16 of 89 words.
has context
6 entriesis a
7 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
64 entriesShowing 16 of 64 words.
Translations
91 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- κύλινδρος noun (anything that rolls)
- κύλινδρος noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вал noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
- вал noun (large, wide, curling wave)
- валяк noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- ролка noun (anything that rolls)
Chechen
1 entries- чӏоб noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 三寶鳥 /三宝鸟 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- 三寶鳥屬 /三宝鸟属 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- 佛法僧 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- 滾筒刷 /滚筒刷 noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Czech
1 entries- mandelík noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Dutch
1 entries- roller noun (anything that rolls)
Finnish
4 entries- Rolls noun (nickname for Rolls-Royce car)
- jyrä noun (cricket: large rolling device)
- jyrä noun (agricultural machine)
- lopputekstit noun (TV, film: credits)
French
2 entries- rollier noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- rouleau noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
German
4 entries- Orientalischer Roller noun (roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed)
- Racke noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- Roller noun (roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed)
- Rollertaube noun (roller pigeon that somersaults backwards at high speed)
Greek
1 entries- χαλκοκουρούνα noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Hebrew
1 entries- כָּחָל noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Hungarian
3 entries- csörgőmadár noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- henger noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- szalakóta noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Icelandic
1 entries- rúlla noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Italian
1 entries- cavallone noun (large, wide, curling wave)
Japanese
4 entries- ブッポウソウ noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- ブッポウソウ科 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- ローラー noun (anything that rolls)
- 仏法僧 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Kazakh
1 entries- білікше noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Korean
3 entries- 롤러 noun (anything that rolls)
- 파랑새 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- 파랑새과 noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Macedonian
4 entries- ва́лјак noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
- ва́лјак noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- го́лем бра́н noun (large, wide, curling wave)
- модро́вранка noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Mongolian
1 entries- өнхрүүш noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Māori
2 entries- rōra noun (agricultural machine)
- tārawa noun (large, wide, curling wave)
Navajo
1 entries- gáagii naashchʼąąʼígíí noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Norman
1 entries- rouôleux noun (anything that rolls)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- malerulle noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- rulle noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- vals noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
- valse noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- vals noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
- valse noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- لوغ noun (anything that rolls)
- لوغ noun (agricultural machine)
- مردانه noun (anything that rolls)
- مردانه noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
Persian
3 entries- سبزقبا noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- سبزک noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- سبزگرا noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Polish
2 entries- kraska noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- wałek noun (anything that rolls)
Portuguese
1 entries- rolo de pintura noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Russian
4 entries- буру́н noun (large, wide, curling wave)
- ва́лик noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
- вал noun (anything that rolls)
- вал noun (rotating cylindrical part of a machine)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- zlatovrana noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Spanish
3 entries- carraca noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
- rodillo noun (anything that rolls)
- rodillo noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Swedish
1 entries- roller noun (tool for applying paint or ink)
Tagalog
2 entries- paralis noun (anything that rolls)
- rodilyo noun (anything that rolls)
Turkish
1 entries- gökkuzgun noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Volapük
1 entries- korak noun (bird of the family Coraciidae)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
James Bond was always depicted as a high roller in his movies.
Source: tatoeba (53869)
I got the roller skates for nothing.
Source: tatoeba (254217)
I got sick riding the roller coaster with the loop-the-loop.
Source: tatoeba (277559)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.