Not even at gunpoint will Imogen of the Internet admit she only learned CSS to spruce up her Myspace profile in the 2000s.
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Spruce
//spɹuːs//
Synonyms for "spruce" (146 found)
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Closest matches (30)
Strong matches (43)
Related words (73)
purgedpurifiedpurifyrechercherefinedreformreformedrenovaterepairretouchreviveritzysassyscavengesharpshineshipshapesleekslickslicked up
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smartsmarten upsmugsnazzysnugsoignesoigneesophisticatedspiffspiffystraightstraighten outstraighten upstyle-consciousstylishswankswankysweep outsweetenswelltauttidytidy uptighttitivatetone uptouch uptreetricksytrigtrimvampwell dressedwell turned-outwell-cared-forwell-dressedwell-groomedwell-keptwhitenwipewipe outwood
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9 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
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1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
15 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
172 translations across 98 languages.
Abkhaz
1 entries- аԥсаӡ noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Afrikaans
1 entries- spar noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Albanian
2 entries- bredhi i zi noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- hormoç noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Arabic
1 entries- تَنُّوب noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Armenian
1 entries- եղևնի noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- küknar noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Bashkir
1 entries- шыршы noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Basque
1 entries- picea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Belarusian
2 entries- ялі́на noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- ёлка noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Bulgarian
3 entries- издокаран adj (smart and elegant)
- спретнат adj (smart and elegant)
- смърч noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Catalan
1 entries- avet roig noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Chechen
1 entries- база noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Cheyenne
1 entries- šéstótó'e noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 雲杉 /云杉 noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Chuvash
1 entries- чӑрӑш noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Czech
3 entries- smrk noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- smrk noun (wood of a spruce)
- smrkový noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
Danish
4 entries- gran noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- gran noun (wood of a spruce)
- gran noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
- granbrænde (firewood) noun (wood of a spruce)
Dutch
3 entries- spar noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- spar noun (wood of a spruce)
- sparrenhout noun (wood of a spruce)
Elfdalian
1 entries- grån noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Erzya
1 entries- куз noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Esperanto
1 entries- piceo noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Estonian
4 entries- krann adj (smart and elegant)
- ontlik adj (smart and elegant)
- sihvakas adj (smart and elegant)
- siivas adj (smart and elegant)
Faroese
3 entries- grann noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- grann noun (wood of a spruce)
- grannviður noun (wood of a spruce)
Finnish
4 entries- tyylikäs adj (smart and elegant)
- kuusi noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- kuusi noun (wood of a spruce)
- kuusi noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
French
2 entries- épicéa noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- épinette noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Friulian
1 entries- peç noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Galician
1 entries- picea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Georgian
1 entries- ნაძვი noun (tree from the genus Picea)
German
3 entries- Fichte noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- Fichte noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- Fichtenholz noun (wood of a spruce)
Greek
1 entries- ερυθρελάτη noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Greenlandic
1 entries- orpiliassaq noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Gwich'in
1 entries- ts'iivii noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Hawaiian
1 entries- lāʻau hū noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Hebrew
1 entries- אשוחית noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Hungarian
2 entries- luc noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- lucfenyő noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Icelandic
4 entries- greni noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- greni noun (wood of a spruce)
- greni noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
- grön noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Ido
1 entries- abieto noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Interlingua
1 entries- picea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Inupiaq
1 entries- napaaqtuq noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Irish
3 entries- breabhsánta adj (smart and elegant)
- pioctha adj (smart and elegant)
- sprús noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Italian
2 entries- abete rosso noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- peccio noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Japanese
1 entries- 唐檜 noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Kaitag
1 entries- ццягь noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Kashubian
1 entries- dana noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Kazakh
1 entries- шырша noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Khakas
1 entries- тіген noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Kildin Sami
1 entries- кӯсс noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Korean
1 entries- 가문비 나무 noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- ёлка noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Latgalian
1 entries- egle noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Latin
1 entries- picea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Latvian
1 entries- egle noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Limburgish
1 entries- sjpar noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Lithuanian
1 entries- eglė noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Lombard
3 entries- paghéra noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- peghéra noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- pighéra noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Low German
1 entries- Fücht noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- škrjok noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- Fiicht noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- Fiichten noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Macedonian
1 entries- смрча noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Mongolian
2 entries- гацуур noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- ᠭᠠᠴᠤᠷᠠ noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Navajo
1 entries- chʼó noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Norman
1 entries- sapîn noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Northern Altai
2 entries- чыбы noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- шӱбе noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- kaj noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Northern Sami
1 entries- guossa noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- gran noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- gran noun (wood of a spruce)
- gran noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- gran noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- gran noun (wood of a spruce)
- gran noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
Occitan
1 entries- picea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Ossetian
1 entries- назты noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Piedmontese
1 entries- sapin noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Fijcht noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Polish
4 entries- elegancki adj (smart and elegant)
- świerk noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- świerk noun (wood of a spruce)
- świerkowy noun (attributive: made of the wood of the spruce)
Portuguese
4 entries- abeto vermelho noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- abeto vermelho noun (wood of a spruce)
- espruce noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- pícea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Quechua
1 entries- pisya noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Romanian
2 entries- molid noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- molid noun (wood of a spruce)
Russian
4 entries- изя́щный adj (smart and elegant)
- наря́дный adj (smart and elegant)
- щеголева́тый adj (smart and elegant)
- элега́нтный adj (smart and elegant)
Salar
1 entries- sompa noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Samogitian
1 entries- eglė noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Saterland Frisian
1 entries- Kjuusdanne noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- giuthas noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- giuthas noun (wood of a spruce)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- omorika noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- smreka noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- smrča noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- smrȅka noun (wood of a spruce)
Slovak
1 entries- smrek noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Slovene
1 entries- smreka noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Southern Altai
1 entries- ёлка noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Spanish
1 entries- pícea noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Swahili
1 entries- msprusi noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Swedish
4 entries- elegant adj (smart and elegant)
- flott adj (smart and elegant)
- stilig adj (smart and elegant)
- gran noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Taos
1 entries- pʼȍkʼúowoną noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Tatar
3 entries- еш noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- серше noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- терке noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Turkish
1 entries- ladin noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Tuvan
1 entries- шиви noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Udmurt
1 entries- кыз noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Ukrainian
3 entries- смере́ка noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- яли́на noun (tree from the genus Picea)
- яли́ця noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- šmrěk noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Vietnamese
1 entries- vân sam noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Walloon
1 entries- epiceya noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Welsh
1 entries- sbriws noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Yakut
1 entries- харыйа noun (tree from the genus Picea)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Do you like spruce beer?
Source: tatoeba (1994361)
Tom told me that he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it.
Source: tatoeba (1994371)
The spruce is burning.
Source: tatoeba (4149770)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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