Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity.
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Spearhead
//ˈspɪɹ.hɛd//
Synonyms for "spearhead" (55 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
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8 entriesderived from
2 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
1 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
79 translations across 24 languages.
Albaniani
3 entries- major noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- majë noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- prijës noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰχμή noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- λόγχη noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Arabic
1 entries- رأس حربة noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Armenian
2 entries- սլաք noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- տեգ noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Bulgarian
2 entries- острие на копие noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- преден отряд noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
Danish
2 entries- spydspids noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- spydspids noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
Dutch
1 entries- speerpunt noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Finnish
4 entries- johtohenkilö noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- keihäänkärki noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- kärkijoukko noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- kärkimies noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
French
3 entries- fer de lance noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- fer de lance noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- fer de lance noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
German
4 entries- Angriffsspitze noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- Bahnbrecher noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- Kopf noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- Lanzenspitze noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Hungarian
4 entries- dárdahegy noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- előrevetett egység noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- lándzsahegy noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- valaminek az élén jár verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
Italian
1 entries- punta di lancia noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Japanese
1 entries- 急先鋒 noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
Middle English
1 entries- spere-hed noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Māori
1 entries- matakīrea noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- serikê rimê noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- serkêş noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- serkêş noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- serkêş bûn verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- مخرص noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Persian
2 entries- سرنیزه noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- سنان noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Polish
4 entries- grot noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- szpica noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- stanąć na czele verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
- stać na czele verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
Portuguese
4 entries- comandante noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- ponta da lança noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- ponta de lança noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
- chefiar verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- glava noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- predvodnica noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- predvodnik noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- vrh koplja noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Spanish
4 entries- caudillo noun (one who leads or initiates an activity)
- punta noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- punta de lanza noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
- punta de lanza noun (the leading military unit in an attack)
Swedish
1 entries- spjutspets noun (the pointed head, or end, of a spear)
Turkish
1 entries- başı çekmek verb (to drive or campaign ardently)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
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Spearheads of the NER bargain fares attack this year have been the introduction of weekend fares at a 7s 6d in the £ discount on ordinary rates between principal stations throughout the Region—[...].
Source: wiktionary
England played at a tempo in attack that was too much for Bulgaria, with width provided at various times by Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing and Rooney acting as the potent spearhead.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.