John is obsessed about getting into a top tier university.
Source: tatoeba (2426934)
Tier
//ˈtaɪ.ə//
Synonyms for "tier" (96 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (48)
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10 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
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1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 24 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- ниво noun (layer or rank)
Catalan
1 entries- rang noun (layer or rank)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 層 /层 noun (layer or rank)
- 排 noun (layer or rank)
- 行 noun (layer or rank)
Danish
1 entries- lag noun (layer or rank)
Dutch
2 entries- laag noun (layer or rank)
- rang noun (layer or rank)
Finnish
2 entries- kerros noun (layer or rank)
- taso noun (layer or rank)
French
1 entries- rang noun (layer or rank)
German
4 entries- Ebene noun (layer or rank)
- Etage noun (layer or rank)
- Rang noun (layer or rank)
- Reihe noun (layer or rank)
Hebrew
3 entries- נִדְבָּךְ noun (layer or rank)
- קוֹמָה noun (layer or rank)
- שִׁכְבָה noun (layer or rank)
Hungarian
4 entries- emelet noun (layer or rank)
- polcsor noun (layer or rank)
- réteg noun (layer or rank)
- sor noun (layer or rank)
Italian
2 entries- ripiano noun (layer or rank)
- strato noun (layer or rank)
Japanese
4 entries- 列 noun (layer or rank)
- 層 noun (layer or rank)
- 階 noun (layer or rank)
- 階層 noun (layer or rank)
Kazakh
1 entries- қабат noun (layer or rank)
Middle English
1 entries- stage noun (layer or rank)
Māori
1 entries- tānga noun (layer or rank)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Schicht noun (layer or rank)
Polish
4 entries- kondygnacja noun (layer or rank)
- poziom noun (layer or rank)
- rząd (np. krzeseł) noun (layer or rank)
- warstwa noun (layer or rank)
Portuguese
1 entries- camada noun (layer or rank)
Russian
4 entries- ряд noun (layer or rank)
- слой noun (layer or rank)
- у́ровень noun (layer or rank)
- эта́ж noun (layer or rank)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- etaža noun (layer or rank)
- етажа noun (layer or rank)
Spanish
4 entries- categoría noun (layer or rank)
- grado noun (layer or rank)
- nivel noun (layer or rank)
- piso noun (layer or rank)
Swedish
2 entries- lager noun (layer or rank)
- skikt noun (layer or rank)
Turkish
1 entries- tabaka noun (layer or rank)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bậc noun (layer or rank)
- thứ bậc noun (layer or rank)
- tầng noun (layer or rank)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
That weird song about the beans was definitely a tier 4 meme.
Source: tatoeba (8994380)
I'm only on the first tier.
Source: tatoeba (10094114)
The silver tier certification is given to countries that have lowered the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate to under five percent and provided prenatal care and anti-retroviral treatment to more than 90 percent of pregnant women.
Source: tatoeba (11224190)
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