Pretty soon along came a steam shovel and dug a road through the hill covered with daisies.
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Shovel
//ˈʃʌv.əl//
Synonyms for "shovel" (68 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (34)
Related word relations
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8 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
2 entriescapable of
2 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
derived from
1 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
9 entriesmanner of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
16 entriessimilar
1 entriesused for
4 entriesTranslations
177 translations across 95 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- ажыга noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Adyghe
3 entries- хьанцэ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- хьацэ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- хьэнцэ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Afrikaans
1 entries- graaf noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Albanian
2 entries- kaci noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- lopatë noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- λίστρον noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ἄμη noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Arabic
4 entries- جاروف noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- شبل noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- كوريك noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- كُريك noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Armenian
2 entries- թի noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- թիակ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Avar
2 entries- бел noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- бугьун noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- bel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- kürək noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Bashkir
1 entries- көрәк noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Belarusian
3 entries- лапа́та noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- рыдлёўка noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- шу́фель noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Bikol Central
1 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лопа́та noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- рина verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Burmese
1 entries- ဂေါ် noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Catalan
2 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- palejar verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Central Kurdish
2 entries- بێڵ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- خاکەناز noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Chechen
1 entries- бел noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᎪᏕᏍᏗ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Chichewa
1 entries- fosholo noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 鏟子 /铲子 noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- 鐵鍬 /铁锹 noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Church Slavic
2 entries- лопата noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ⰾⱁⱂⰰⱅⰰ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- kürek noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Czech
2 entries- lopata noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- rýč noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Danish
1 entries- skovl noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Dutch
3 entries- schep noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- schop noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- scheppen verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Esperanto
3 entries- fosilo noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ŝovelilo noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ŝoveli verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Estonian
1 entries- kühvel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Faroese
2 entries- spaki noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- spaði noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Finnish
2 entries- lapio noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- lapioida verb (to move materials with a shovel)
French
3 entries- bêche noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- pelle noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- peller verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Galician
2 entries- pa noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- paa noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Georgian
2 entries- ბარი noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ნიჩაბი noun (tool for moving portions of material)
German
4 entries- Schaufel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- Schüppe noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- schaufeln verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- schippen verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Greek
2 entries- φτυάρι noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- φτυαρίζω verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֵת noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Hindi
2 entries- खनित्र noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- बेलचा noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Hungarian
2 entries- lapát noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- lapátol verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Icelandic
3 entries- skófla noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- moka verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- skófla verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Ido
1 entries- shovelagar verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Indonesian
1 entries- pengki noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Irish
2 entries- sluasaid noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- sluaisteáil verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Italian
4 entries- badile noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- paletta noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- spalare verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Japanese
2 entries- シャベル noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- スコップ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Kabardian
1 entries- хьэнцэ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Kazakh
1 entries- күрек noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Khmer
1 entries- ចប noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Korean
1 entries- 삽 noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- күрөк noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Lao
3 entries- ຊວ້ານ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ຊ້ວນ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ສຽມ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Latin
2 entries- pāla noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- rutrum noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Latvian
1 entries- lāpsta noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Lezgi
1 entries- ппер noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Macedonian
2 entries- лопата noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- рине verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Malay
2 entries- penyodok noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- spade noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Middle Low German
1 entries- schüffelen verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Mirandese
2 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- çpaliar verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Mongolian
2 entries- хүрз noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ᠬᠦᠷᠵᠡ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Māori
4 entries- hāpara noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- hāwara noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- koko verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- tīkoko verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Nepali
1 entries- बेल्चा noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Norman
1 entries- pelle noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- bêr noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- merr noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- skuffe noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- måke verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- skuffe verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- skuffe noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- moke verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- skuffe verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Occitan
1 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- лопата noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Oromo
1 entries- akaafaa noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Ossetian
1 entries- бел noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Persian
1 entries- بیل noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Plautdietsch
2 entries- Scheffel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- scheflen verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Polabian
1 entries- šüṕă noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Polish
1 entries- łopata noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Portuguese
3 entries- pá noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- padejar verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- palear verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Quechua
2 entries- lampa noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- lampay verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Romanian
1 entries- lopată noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Russian
1 entries- лопа́та noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- lòpata noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- ло̀пата noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Slovak
1 entries- lopata noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Slovene
1 entries- lopata noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кӱрек noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Spanish
3 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- palear verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- traspalar verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Swedish
4 entries- skovel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- skyffel noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- spade noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- skotta verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Tagalog
2 entries- pala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- pumala noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Tajik
1 entries- бел noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Tatar
1 entries- көрәк noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Telugu
1 entries- పార noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Thai
1 entries- พลั่ว noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྦྱག་མ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Turkish
2 entries- kürek noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- küremek verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Turkmen
2 entries- pil noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- susguç noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Ukrainian
1 entries- лопа́та noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Urdu
1 entries- بیلچہ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Uzbek
1 entries- kurak noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mai noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- xẻng noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Welsh
4 entries- rhaw noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- siefl noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- rhawio verb (to move materials with a shovel)
- rhofio verb (to move materials with a shovel)
Yiddish
4 entries- זאַסטופּ noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- לאָפּעטע noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- רידל noun (tool for moving portions of material)
- שױװל noun (tool for moving portions of material)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
They were clearing the snow from the sidewalk with a shovel.
Source: tatoeba (307528)
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
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Throw the shovel!
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