This cloth feels like velvet.
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Velvet
//ˈvɛlvɪt//
Synonyms for "velvet" (113 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (56)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesat location
7 entriesdbpedia genre
2 entriesdbpedia occupation
1 entriesderived
41 entriesShowing 16 of 41 words.
has context
3 entrieshas property
2 entriesis a
5 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
57 entriesShowing 16 of 57 words.
similar
2 entriesused for
11 entriesTranslations
124 translations across 79 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- kadife noun (fabric)
Arabic
3 entries- قطيفة noun (fabric)
- قَطِيفَة noun (fabric)
- مُخْمَل noun (fabric)
Armenian
1 entries- թավիշ noun (fabric)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- məxmər noun (fabric)
Belarusian
2 entries- аксамі́т noun (fabric)
- ба́рхат noun (fabric)
Bengali
1 entries- মখমল noun (fabric)
Breton
1 entries- voulouz noun (fabric)
Bulgarian
2 entries- кадифен adj (made of velvet)
- кадифе́ noun (fabric)
Burmese
1 entries- ကတ္တီပါ noun (fabric)
Catalan
1 entries- vellut noun (fabric)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 絲絨 /丝绒 noun (fabric)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 天鵝絨 /天鹅绒 noun (fabric)
- 絲絨 /丝绒 noun (fabric)
Czech
1 entries- samet noun (fabric)
Danish
2 entries- bast noun (fine fur)
- fløjl noun (fabric)
Dutch
1 entries- fluweel noun (fabric)
Esperanto
1 entries- veluro noun (fabric)
Estonian
1 entries- samet noun (fabric)
Faroese
2 entries- fleyald noun (fabric)
- floyal noun (fabric)
Finnish
2 entries- (samettinen) nahka noun (fine fur)
- sametti noun (fabric)
French
3 entries- duvet noun (fine fur)
- velours noun (fabric)
- velours (on antlers) noun (fine fur)
Galician
1 entries- veludo noun (fabric)
Georgian
1 entries- ხავერდი noun (fabric)
German
4 entries- Samt noun (fabric)
- (das Geweih) fegen verb (to remove the velvet from a deer's antlers)
- die Krallen einziehen verb (to retract (cat's claws))
- mildern verb (to soften, to mitigate)
Greek
1 entries- βελούδο noun (fabric)
Hebrew
1 entries- קְטִיפָה noun (fabric)
Hindi
1 entries- मख़मल noun (fabric)
Hungarian
1 entries- bársony noun (fabric)
Icelandic
1 entries- flauel noun (fabric)
Indonesian
1 entries- beludru noun (fabric)
Irish
2 entries- veilbhit noun (fabric)
- veilbhit noun (fine fur)
Italian
1 entries- velluto noun (fabric)
Japanese
3 entries- ビロード noun (fabric)
- ベルベット noun (fabric)
- 角袋 noun (fine fur)
Kazakh
3 entries- барқыт noun (fabric)
- мақпал noun (fabric)
- қатипа noun (fabric)
Khmer
1 entries- កម្ញី noun (fabric)
Korean
2 entries- 벨벳 noun (fabric)
- 우단 noun (fabric)
Kumyk
1 entries- махмар noun (fabric)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- баркыт noun (fabric)
- макмал noun (fabric)
Lao
1 entries- ກຳມະຫຍີ່ noun (fabric)
Latvian
1 entries- samts noun (fabric)
Lithuanian
1 entries- aksomas noun (fabric)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Samett noun (fabric)
Macedonian
3 entries- кадифен adj (made of velvet)
- кадифе noun (fabric)
- сомот noun (fabric)
Malay
2 entries- baldu noun (fabric)
- beledu noun (fabric)
Maltese
1 entries- bellus noun (fabric)
Mongolian
1 entries- хилэн noun (fabric)
Māori
1 entries- wereweti noun (fabric)
Norman
1 entries- v'lous noun (fabric)
Norwegian
1 entries- fløyel noun (fabric)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قطیفه noun (fabric)
Pashto
2 entries- بخمل noun (fabric)
- مخمل noun (fabric)
Persian
1 entries- مخمل noun (fabric)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Zaunft noun (fabric)
Polish
4 entries- aksamitny adj (made of velvet)
- aksamitny adj (soft)
- aksamitny adj (politics)
- aksamit noun (fabric)
Portuguese
1 entries- veludo noun (fabric)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਮਖਮਲ noun (fabric)
Romanian
1 entries- catifea noun (fabric)
Russian
4 entries- ба́рхатный adj (made of velvet)
- аксами́т noun (fabric)
- ба́рхат noun (fabric)
- вельве́т noun (fabric)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- meileabhaid noun (fabric)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bàršūn noun (fabric)
- ба̀ршӯн noun (fabric)
Slovak
1 entries- zamat noun (fabric)
Slovene
1 entries- žamet noun (fabric)
Spanish
4 entries- terciopelo noun (fabric)
- velludillo noun (fabric)
- velludo noun (fabric)
- veludillo noun (fabric)
Swahili
1 entries- mahameli noun (fabric)
Swedish
2 entries- basthud noun (fine fur)
- sammet noun (fabric)
Tagalog
1 entries- pelus noun (fabric)
Tajik
2 entries- бахмал noun (fabric)
- махмал noun (fabric)
Tatar
1 entries- бәрхет noun (fabric)
Thai
1 entries- กำมะหยี่ noun (fabric)
Tibetan
1 entries- སྤུ་མ noun (fabric)
Turkish
1 entries- kadife noun (fabric)
Turkmen
1 entries- welwet noun (fabric)
Ukrainian
1 entries- оксами́т noun (fabric)
Urdu
1 entries- مخمل noun (fabric)
Uyghur
3 entries- بەرقۇت noun (fabric)
- دۇخاۋا noun (fabric)
- مەخمەل noun (fabric)
Uzbek
3 entries- barxit noun (fabric)
- baxmal noun (fabric)
- duxoba noun (fabric)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhung noun (fabric)
Volapük
1 entries- veluv noun (fabric)
Welsh
1 entries- melfed noun (fabric)
Yiddish
1 entries- סאַמעט noun (fabric)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Little babies' cheeks feel like velvet.
Source: tatoeba (272367)
A creepy cry that sounds like a human voice, velvet black wings, the image of tearing into dead flesh; crows are known across the world as an ill-omened bird that flies down with ill-luck.
Source: tatoeba (328186)
He wore a jaunty coat of chocolate-colored velvet, with diamond buttons, and with two huge pockets which were always filled with bones, dropped there at dinner by his loving mistress.
Source: tatoeba (897038)
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