Mary is a good seamstress.
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Seamstress
//ˈsɛm(p).stɹɪs//
Synonyms for "seamstress" (7 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Noun(2 words)
Related words (3)
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60 translations across 40 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَيَّاطَة noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tikişçi noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Belarusian
1 entries- шва́чка noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Bulgarian
1 entries- шива́чка noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Catalan
2 entries- cosidora noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- costurera noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 女裁縫 /女裁缝 noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Czech
2 entries- šička noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- švadlena noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Danish
1 entries- syerske noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Dutch
1 entries- naaister noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Esperanto
1 entries- kudristino noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Estonian
1 entries- õmbleja noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Finnish
1 entries- ompelijatar noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
French
1 entries- couturière noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Georgian
2 entries- თერძი noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- მკერავი noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
German
3 entries- Näherin noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- Weissnäherin noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- Weißnäherin noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Hebrew
1 entries- תּוֹפֶרֶת noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Hungarian
1 entries- varrónő noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Irish
2 entries- bean fuála noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- maintín noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Italian
2 entries- cucitrice noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- sarta noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Japanese
2 entries- 裁縫師 noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- 針子 noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Korean
2 entries- 재봉사 noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- 침모 noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Macedonian
1 entries- шивачка noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Middle English
1 entries- semestere noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Māori
1 entries- kaitui noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sydame noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- syerske noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- sydame noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- syerske noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Old English
1 entries- sēamestre noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Polish
1 entries- szwaczka noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Portuguese
1 entries- costureira noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Romanian
3 entries- croitoreasă noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- cusătoreasă noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- cuturieră noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Russian
2 entries- белошве́йка noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- швея́ noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Sardinian
1 entries- cusidòra noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- krojàčica noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- švȁlja noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- кроја̀чица noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- шва̏ља noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Slovak
1 entries- šička noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Slovene
1 entries- šivilja noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Spanish
1 entries- costurera noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Swedish
1 entries- sömmerska noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Ukrainian
2 entries- шва́ля noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- шва́чка noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Uzbek
1 entries- tikuvchi noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Volapük
3 entries- hinägan noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- jinägan noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
- nägan noun (woman who sews clothes professionally)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Rosa Parks wasn't simply a tired seamstress who sat down by accident. She was a civil rights leader with the eye of a strategist and the heart of a warrior.
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My wife is a seamstress.
Source: tatoeba (5242298)
My daughter Brigitta is a seamstress.
Source: tatoeba (5242368)
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