The taxi seemed to go as slowly as a snail.
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Snail
//sneɪl//
Synonyms for "snail" (59 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
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2 entriesderived
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3 entriesis a
8 entriesmanner of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
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Translations
318 translations across 196 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- акамыршша noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Adyghe
1 entries- цӏыӏргъ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Afrikaans
1 entries- slak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Albanian
1 entries- kërmill noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Algerian Arabic
1 entries- بوجغلال noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κόχλιας noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Arabic
4 entries- ببوش noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- بزقة noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- حلزون noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- حلزون noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Aragonese
1 entries- caragol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Armenian
1 entries- խխունջ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Assamese
1 entries- শামুক noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Asturian
2 entries- caracol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- cascoxu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Avar
1 entries- цӏадалхӏама noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Aymara
1 entries- ch'uru noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ilbiz noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bangi
1 entries- monkolo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Basque
1 entries- barraskilo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bats
1 entries- ჰიმო̂ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Belarusian
3 entries- сліма́к noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- смоўж noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- улі́тка noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bemba
1 entries- ín-kolâ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bengali
1 entries- শামুক noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- घोंघा noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Borôro
1 entries- uruwo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bouyei
4 entries- duezngeec noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ngeec noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- sailndis noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- sailnduangl noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Breton
1 entries- melc'hwed noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Bulgarian
2 entries- о́хлюв noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- плу́жек noun (sluggard)
Burmese
2 entries- ခရုပက်ကျိ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ပက်ကျိ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Catalan
4 entries- caragol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- cargol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- dropo noun (sluggard)
- mandrós noun (sluggard)
Central Melanau
1 entries- sek noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chakma
2 entries- 𑄌𑄖𑄴 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- 𑄥𑄟𑄪𑄇𑄴 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chamicuro
1 entries- shyamo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chechen
1 entries- этмаьӏиг noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎡᎶᏆ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chichewa
1 entries- nkhono noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chinese
1 entries- 露螺 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 蝸牛 /蜗牛 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 蝸牛 /蜗牛 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chittagonian
1 entries- óõk noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Chuvash
1 entries- шуй noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Corsican
1 entries- lumaca noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Cree
1 entries- ᐊᑲᐦᑿᕀ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Czech
3 entries- hlemýžď noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- šnek noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- šnek noun (sluggard)
Danish
3 entries- snegl noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- snegl noun (sluggard)
- snegl med sneglehus noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Dutch
2 entries- huisjesslak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- slak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 牛母牛囝 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Emilian
1 entries- lumèga noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Erzya
1 entries- гуйтодов noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Esperanto
1 entries- heliko noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Estonian
1 entries- tigu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Faroese
1 entries- snigil noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Finnish
3 entries- etana noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- etana noun (sluggard)
- kotilo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Franco-Provençal
1 entries- lemace noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
French
3 entries- escargot noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- escargot noun (sluggard)
- limaçon noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Galician
4 entries- arlote noun (sluggard)
- bacaceiro noun (sluggard)
- baleigán noun (sluggard)
- brégolas noun (sluggard)
Georgian
2 entries- ლოკოკინა noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ლოკოკინა noun (sluggard)
German
4 entries- Gehäuseschnecke noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- Schnecke noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- Schnecke noun (sluggard)
- Schnägg noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Gilaki
1 entries- راب noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Greek
1 entries- σαλιγκάρι noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Greenlandic
1 entries- siuteroq noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- kalmason noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Hawaiian
1 entries- homeka noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Hebrew
2 entries- חִלָּזוֹן noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- שַׁבְּלוּל noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Hindi
1 entries- घोंगा noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Hinukh
1 entries- хетӏу-бисмилла noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Hungarian
1 entries- csiga noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Icelandic
1 entries- snigill noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ido
1 entries- heliko noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Igala
1 entries- ìgbí noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Indonesian
3 entries- bekicot noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- keong noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- siput noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ingrian
1 entries- maonkotain noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ingush
1 entries- митал noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Interlingua
1 entries- limace noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- حَلَزون noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- لیسَک noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Iraqi Arabic
1 entries- زلنطح noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Irish
3 entries- seilche noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- seilide noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- seilmide noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Isthmus Zapotec
1 entries- bichubé noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Italian
2 entries- chiocciola noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- lumaca noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Japanese
3 entries- でんでん虫 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- カタツムリ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- 蝸牛 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kabyle
1 entries- aɛarus noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kannada
2 entries- ಬಸವನ ಹುಳು noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ಶಂಬುಕ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұлу noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Khinalug
1 entries- илбиз noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Khmer
1 entries- ខ្យង noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kimaragang
1 entries- tuntul noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kongo
1 entries- mukolo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Korean
3 entries- 느림보 noun (sluggard)
- 달팽이 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- 와우 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kryts
1 entries- шийтӏан noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kunigami
1 entries- っとぅんな noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- үлүл noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lao
1 entries- ຫອຍນ້ຳຈືດ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Latgalian
1 entries- glīmiezs noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Latin
1 entries- cochlea noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Latvian
1 entries- gliemezis noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Laz
1 entries- ფენწო noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Limburgish
2 entries- slak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- snaegel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lingala
2 entries- libelekete noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- likolo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lisu
2 entries- ꓐꓶꓼ ꓠꓶꓼ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ꓠꓸ ꓑꓼ ꓟꓺ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lithuanian
1 entries- sraigė noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lombard
1 entries- lumaga noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- slinik noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schleek noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Macedonian
3 entries- вле́чко noun (sluggard)
- по́лжав noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ро́глец noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Malagasy
2 entries- lelosy noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- sifotra noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Malay
1 entries- siput noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Malayalam
1 entries- ഒച്ച് noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Maltese
2 entries- bebbux noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- għakrux noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Manx
1 entries- crammag noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Marathi
1 entries- गोगलगाय noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Mazanderani
3 entries- راب noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- لیسک noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- گرسکل noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Mingrelian
2 entries- ლოქორუა noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ფერწო noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Miyako
1 entries- んーな noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Mon
1 entries- တု noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Mongolian
3 entries- бүрээ хорхой noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- эмгэн хумс noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ᠡᠮᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠬᠢᠮᠤᠰᠤ ᠪᠦᠷᠢᠶᠡ ᠬᠣᠷᠣᠬᠠᠢ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Māori
1 entries- pūpū noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Nahuatl
1 entries- tecciztli noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Navajo
2 entries- chʼosh chʼééh digháhii noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- tąądee naagháii noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Neapolitan
1 entries- babbaluscia noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Norman
1 entries- colînmachon noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- hiseynok noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- şeytanok noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Northern Sami
1 entries- riipu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Northern Sotho
1 entries- kgohu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- snegl noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- snegle noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- snile noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- snigel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Occitan
2 entries- cagaraula noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- cagaròl noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ojibwe
1 entries- biimiskodisii noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Okinawan
1 entries- ちんなん noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- смолжь noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Old English
2 entries- sneġel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- ġehūsod sneġel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Old Irish
1 entries- selige noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ossetian
1 entries- сӕтӕлӕг noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- шлїмак noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- шлїмушлїк noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Pashto
3 entries- غوابيژه noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- غوابيژی noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- غواګۍ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Pennsylvania German
1 entries- Schneck noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schnigj noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Polish
2 entries- osoba, która wlecze się noun (sluggard)
- ślimak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Portuguese
3 entries- caracol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- caramujo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- lesma noun (sluggard)
Quechua
1 entries- ch'uru noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Romagnol
1 entries- lumég noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Romanian
1 entries- melc noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Romansch
1 entries- lindorna noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Russian
3 entries- копу́ша noun (sluggard)
- тихохо́д noun (sluggard)
- ули́тка noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Samogitian
1 entries- srāgis noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Sanskrit
1 entries- शम्बूक noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Scots
1 entries- snail noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- seilcheag noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- pȗž noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- пу̑ж noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Shona
1 entries- hózhwe noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Sicilian
4 entries- babbaluciu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- bucalaci noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- crastuni noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- stuppateddu noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Sinhalese
1 entries- ගොළුබෙලි noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Slovak
1 entries- slimák noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Slovene
1 entries- polž noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Spanish
4 entries- caracol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- churo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- gandul noun (sluggard)
- haragán noun (sluggard)
Svan
2 entries- მჷრღჷჭ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- მჷყა̄ნც noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Swahili
1 entries- konokono noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Swazi
1 entries- um-nenkhé noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Swedish
1 entries- snigel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Sylheti
1 entries- ꠢꠣꠝꠥꠇ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tagalog
1 entries- kuhol noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tajik
2 entries- тӯқумшуллуқ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- холазун noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tamil
1 entries- நத்தை noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tarifit
2 entries- aɣřař noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- bucceř noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tashelhit
1 entries- aɣwlal noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tatar
1 entries- лайлач noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Telugu
1 entries- నత్త noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Thai
1 entries- หอยทาก noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྨུག་འབུ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tigrinya
1 entries- ኣረነ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tunisian Arabic
1 entries- ببوش noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Turkish
1 entries- salyangoz noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Turkmen
1 entries- ulitka noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Tuvan
1 entries- хап-балык noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Udi
1 entries- аьлбиз noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Udmurt
3 entries- акач-тукач noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- биётака noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- куалялюльы noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ра́влик noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- слима́к noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Unami
2 entries- chikolale noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- tëshkwëlala noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- šlink noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Urdu
2 entries- حَلْزُون noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- گھون٘گا noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Uyghur
1 entries- قۇلۇلە noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Uzbek
2 entries- chayon noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- shilliq qurt noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Venetan
2 entries- sciozo noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- łumaga noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ốc noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Volapük
1 entries- snel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Walloon
1 entries- caracole noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Welsh
3 entries- malwen noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- malwod noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- malwoden noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
West Coast Bajau
1 entries- kesu' noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
West-Frisian
1 entries- slak noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Wu Chinese
1 entries- 蝸牛 /蜗牛 noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yaeyama
1 entries- つだみ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yiddish
1 entries- שנעק noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yonaguni
1 entries- んだみ noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yoruba
1 entries- ìgbín noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yucatec Maya
2 entries- urich noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- uul noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yup'ik
1 entries- nepcurliq noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Yámana
1 entries- atwel noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Zazaki
1 entries- seytanok noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Zhuang
3 entries- hoingwh noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- sae noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
- saehaexma noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Zulu
1 entries- umnenke noun (any animal of the class Gastropoda having a shell)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
The snail shot out its horns.
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Bob ate the snail, then vomited.
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The snail draws in its feelers.
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