There's not enough light in this room for sewing.
Source: tatoeba (44198)
Sewing
//ˈsəʊɪŋ//
Synonyms for "sewing" (76 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (38)
Related word relations
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More general
3 entriescauses
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
derived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entrieshas prerequisite
7 entrieshas subevent
15 entriesis a
8 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
1 entriesused for
37 entriesattaching buttons to clothingattaching fabricattaching pieces of cloth togetherbinding two things togetherclosing opening in skinconnecting clothconnecting segments of materialcreating clothescreating quiltscreative expressiondecorating thingsearning moneyfixing clothesfixing clothingfunhemming clothing
Showing 16 of 37 words.
Translations
90 translations across 60 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- qepje noun (action of the verb to sew)
Arabic
3 entries- حِيَاكَة noun (action of the verb to sew)
- خياطة noun (action of the verb to sew)
- خِيَاطَة noun (action of the verb to sew)
Armenian
2 entries- կար noun (action of the verb to sew)
- կար noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Aromanian
1 entries- cuseare noun (action of the verb to sew)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tikiş noun (action of the verb to sew)
Belarusian
2 entries- шыццё noun (action of the verb to sew)
- шыцьцё noun (action of the verb to sew)
Bulgarian
2 entries- не́що уши́то noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- ши́ене noun (action of the verb to sew)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- шитя noun (action of the verb to sew)
Catalan
2 entries- cosida noun (action of the verb to sew)
- costura noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Chechen
1 entries- тегар noun (action of the verb to sew)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 縫 /缝 noun (action of the verb to sew)
- 縫紉 /缝纫 noun (action of the verb to sew)
Corsican
1 entries- cusgitura noun (action of the verb to sew)
Czech
1 entries- šití noun (action of the verb to sew)
Danish
1 entries- syning noun (action of the verb to sew)
Dutch
1 entries- naaien noun (action of the verb to sew)
Estonian
1 entries- õmblemine noun (action of the verb to sew)
Finnish
2 entries- ompele noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- ompelu noun (action of the verb to sew)
French
2 entries- couture noun (action of the verb to sew)
- couture noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Galician
1 entries- costura noun (action of the verb to sew)
Georgian
1 entries- კერვა noun (action of the verb to sew)
German
1 entries- Nähen noun (action of the verb to sew)
Greek
1 entries- ράψιμο noun (action of the verb to sew)
Hebrew
1 entries- תְּפִירָה noun (action of the verb to sew)
Hindi
2 entries- सिलाई noun (action of the verb to sew)
- सिलाई noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Hungarian
1 entries- varrás noun (action of the verb to sew)
Icelandic
1 entries- saumaskap noun (action of the verb to sew)
Ingrian
1 entries- ompelostöö noun (action of the verb to sew)
Iranian Persian
1 entries- دوزَنْدِگی noun (action of the verb to sew)
Irish
2 entries- fuáil noun (action of the verb to sew)
- fuáil noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Italian
2 entries- cucito noun (action of the verb to sew)
- cucito noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Japanese
2 entries- 縫い物 noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- 裁縫 noun (action of the verb to sew)
Kazakh
3 entries- тігу noun (action of the verb to sew)
- тігін noun (action of the verb to sew)
- тігіс noun (action of the verb to sew)
Korean
2 entries- 바느질 noun (action of the verb to sew)
- 재봉 noun (action of the verb to sew)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- тигиш noun (action of the verb to sew)
Latvian
1 entries- šūšana noun (action of the verb to sew)
Lithuanian
1 entries- siuvimas noun (action of the verb to sew)
Macedonian
1 entries- шиење noun (action of the verb to sew)
Malayalam
2 entries- തയ്ക്കുക noun (action of the verb to sew)
- തുന്നുക noun (action of the verb to sew)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sying noun (action of the verb to sew)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sying noun (action of the verb to sew)
Pannonian Rusyn
1 entries- шице noun (action of the verb to sew)
Polish
1 entries- szycie noun (action of the verb to sew)
Portuguese
1 entries- costura noun (action of the verb to sew)
Romanian
1 entries- cusut noun (action of the verb to sew)
Russian
3 entries- вы́шивка noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- поши́в noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- шитьё noun (action of the verb to sew)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- šivanje noun (action of the verb to sew)
- šivanje noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- šivenje noun (action of the verb to sew)
- švelo noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Slovak
1 entries- šitie noun (action of the verb to sew)
Slovene
1 entries- šivanje noun (action of the verb to sew)
Southern Altai
1 entries- тигиш noun (action of the verb to sew)
Spanish
4 entries- cosedura noun (action of the verb to sew)
- cosedura noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- costura noun (action of the verb to sew)
- costura noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
Swedish
1 entries- sömnad noun (action of the verb to sew)
Tajik
1 entries- дӯзандагӣ noun (action of the verb to sew)
Thai
1 entries- การเย็บผ้า noun (action of the verb to sew)
Turkish
1 entries- dikiş noun (action of the verb to sew)
Ukrainian
1 entries- шиття́ noun (action of the verb to sew)
Urdu
1 entries- سِلائی noun (action of the verb to sew)
Uzbek
2 entries- tikish noun (action of the verb to sew)
- tikuv noun (action of the verb to sew)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự khâu noun (action of the verb to sew)
Walloon
2 entries- costeure noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- keudaedje noun (action of the verb to sew)
Welsh
2 entries- gwniadwaith noun (something that is being or has been sewn)
- gwnïo noun (action of the verb to sew)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
How long does it take to get the hang of this sewing machine?
Source: tatoeba (60461)
While you are reading to me, I can do my sewing.
Source: tatoeba (71304)
The lonely patient derives pleasure from sewing.
Source: tatoeba (239906)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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