Straggler

//ˈstɹæɡlə//

Synonyms for "straggler" (30 found)

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related to

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Translations

149 translations across 14 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 游荡者 noun (one who roams without any settled direction)
  • 落伍者 noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Dutch

4 entries
  • achterblijver noun (one who falls behind the rest)
  • afwijkeling noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • schooier noun (a roving vagabond)
  • uitwas noun (an exuberant growth)

Finnish

4 entries
  • eksyjä noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • harhailija noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • harhailija noun (one who roams without any settled direction)
  • hidastelija noun (one who falls behind the rest)

French

2 entries
  • traînard noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • traînard noun (one who falls behind the rest)

German

4 entries
  • Bummler noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • Bummler noun (one who roams without any settled direction)
  • Landstreicher noun (a roving vagabond)
  • Landstreicherin noun (a roving vagabond)

Irish

4 entries
  • ainmhithe imirceacha fánacha noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • ainmhithe imirceacha fánacha noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • ainmhithe imirceacha fánacha noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • ainmhí imirceach fánach noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)

Māori

1 entries
  • whakatakere noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Polish

2 entries
  • maruder noun (one who falls behind the rest)
  • maruderka noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • animais migratórios desgarradas noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • animais migratórios desgarrados noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • animais migratórios desgarrados noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)
  • animal migratório desgarrada noun (a migratory animal found away from its usual range)

Russian

1 entries
  • отставший noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • lutalica noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • lutalica noun (one who roams without any settled direction)
  • lutalica noun (a roving vagabond)
  • odlutali noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Spanish

2 entries
  • rezagado noun (one who falls behind the rest)
  • vago noun (a roving vagabond)

Swedish

1 entries
  • eftersläntrare noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Turkish

4 entries
  • avare noun (one who roams without any settled direction)
  • aylak noun (a roving vagabond)
  • geride kalan noun (one who departs from the direct or proper course)
  • geride kalan noun (one who falls behind the rest)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.

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This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler.

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