Can you tell the difference between granite and sandstone?
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Sandstone
//ˈsændˌstoʊn//
Synonyms for "sandstone" (41 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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4 entriesderived from
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2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
87 translations across 72 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- gur ranor noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Arabic
1 entries- حَجَر رَمْلِيّ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Armenian
1 entries- ավազաքար noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- qumdaşı noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Basque
1 entries- hareharri noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Belarusian
1 entries- пясча́нік noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Bulgarian
1 entries- пя́съчник noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Burmese
1 entries- သဲကျောက် noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Catalan
2 entries- gres noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- pedra sorrenca noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 砂岩 noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Czech
1 entries- pískovec noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Danish
1 entries- sandsten noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Dutch
1 entries- zandsteen noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Esperanto
2 entries- grejso noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- sabloŝtono noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Estonian
1 entries- liivakivi noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Finnish
1 entries- hiekkakivi noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
French
1 entries- grès noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Georgian
1 entries- ქვიშაქვა noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
German
1 entries- Sandstein noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Greek
1 entries- ψαμμίτης noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Hawaiian
1 entries- pōhāone noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֶבֶן חוֹל noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Hindi
1 entries- बलुआ पत्थर noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Hungarian
1 entries- homokkő noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Icelandic
1 entries- sandsteinn noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Ido
1 entries- greso noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Indonesian
2 entries- batu pasir noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- cadas noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Irish
2 entries- cloch ghainimh noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- gaineamhchloch noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Italian
1 entries- arenaria noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Japanese
1 entries- 砂岩 noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦮꦢꦱ꧀ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Kazakh
1 entries- құмдақ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Khmer
2 entries- ថ្មខ្សាច់ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- ថ្មគគ្រាត noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Korean
1 entries- 사암 noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- кум таш noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- кумдак noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- кумдук noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Lao
1 entries- ຫີນຊາຍ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Latvian
1 entries- smilšakmens noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Lithuanian
1 entries- smiltainis noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Macedonian
1 entries- песочник noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Malay
1 entries- batu pasir noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Mongolian
1 entries- элсэн чулуу noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Māori
2 entries- pīpīwai noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- tunaeke noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Navajo
1 entries- tsé dizéígíí noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Norman
1 entries- pièrre dé grès noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sandstein noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sandstein noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Occitan
1 entries- gres noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Persian
1 entries- ماسهسنگ noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Polish
1 entries- piaskowiec noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Portuguese
1 entries- arenito noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Romanian
1 entries- gresie noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Romansch
1 entries- crap da sablun noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Russian
1 entries- песча́ник noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- clach-ghainmhich noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- peščar noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- peščànīk noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- peščènjāk noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- pješčenjak noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Slovak
1 entries- pieskovec noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Slovene
1 entries- peščenjak noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кумак таш noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Spanish
1 entries- arenisca noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Swedish
1 entries- sandsten noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Tajik
1 entries- регсанг noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Tatar
1 entries- ком ташы noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Thai
1 entries- หินทราย noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Turkish
1 entries- kum taşı noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Turkmen
1 entries- gum daşy noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Ukrainian
2 entries- піскови́к noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
- піща́ник noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Unami
1 entries- lekawahsën noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Uyghur
1 entries- قۇم تېشى noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Uzbek
1 entries- qumtosh noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sa thạch noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Welsh
1 entries- tywodfaen noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Yiddish
1 entries- זאַמדשטיין noun (sand/clay sedimentary rock)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Sandstone is a kind of sedimentary rock.
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In the evening light, the sandstone façade of the Romanesque basilica lit up with an unexpected splendour of colours.
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A tall, slim girl, half-past sixteen, with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August.
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