The royal wedding was a great spectacle.
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Spectacle
//ˈspɛktəkl̩//
Synonyms for "spectacle" (180 found)
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Closest matches (36)
Strong matches (54)
Related words (90)
morality playmusic dramamusical revuemyrioramamysterymystery playnonesuchoperapageantpageantrypanel showpanoramapantomimeparadepassion playpastoralpastoral dramaperformancephantasmagoriaphenomenon
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14 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
7 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
77 translations across 42 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θέαμα noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Arabic
2 entries- مَسْرَحِيَّة noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- مَشْهَد noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tamaşa noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Bashkir
1 entries- тамаша noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Belarusian
2 entries- відо́вішча noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- спекта́кль noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- तमासा noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зре́лище noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- спекта́къл noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Catalan
1 entries- espectacle noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 奇觀 /奇观 noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Czech
1 entries- podívaná noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Danish
1 entries- skue noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Dutch
1 entries- spektakel noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Esperanto
1 entries- spektaklo noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Finnish
4 entries- näky noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- näytelmä noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- näytös noun (an embarrassing situation)
- peili noun (aid to intellectual sight)
French
1 entries- spectacle noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Galician
1 entries- espectáculo noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
German
2 entries- Schauspiel noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- Spektakel noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Greek
1 entries- θέαμα noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Hungarian
3 entries- látnivaló noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- látvány noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- látványosság noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Iranian Persian
3 entries- تَماشا noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- مَنْظَرِه noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- نَمایِش noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Italian
1 entries- spettacolo noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Japanese
3 entries- スペクタクル noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- 光景 noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- 壮観 noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Kazakh
1 entries- көрініс noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Korean
2 entries- 광경 noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- 스펙터클 noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- көрүнүш noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Latin
1 entries- spectāculum noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Latvian
2 entries- ekspozīcija noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- izstāde noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- skue noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Polish
2 entries- spektakl noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- widowisko noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Portuguese
4 entries- espectáculo noun (an embarrassing situation)
- espetáculo noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- mostra noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- show noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਤਮਾਸ਼ਾ noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Romanian
1 entries- spectacol noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Russian
3 entries- зре́лище noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- представле́ние noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- спекта́кль noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Slovak
1 entries- podívaná noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Spanish
3 entries- espectáculo noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- espectáculo noun (an embarrassing situation)
- papelón noun (an embarrassing situation)
Swedish
3 entries- spektakel noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- spektakel noun (an embarrassing situation)
- syn noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Tajik
3 entries- манзара noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- намоиш noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- тамошо noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Turkish
2 entries- manzara noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- temaşa noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Turkmen
1 entries- tomaşa noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Ukrainian
3 entries- видо́висько noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- видо́вище noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- спекта́кль noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Uyghur
2 entries- تاماشا noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- كۆرۈنۈش noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Uzbek
3 entries- koʻrinish noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- manzara noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
- tomosha noun (something exciting or extraordinary)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I need to buy new spectacle frames.
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It's a spectacle you won't forget.
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He was a pitiable spectacle of neglect and wretchedness as he sat there on an upturned pail, eating his bread and cheese with fingers that, like his clothing, were grimed with paint and dirt.
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