Synonyms for SAND
sænd; Fr. sɑ̃d, sɑ̃sand

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. sandnoun

   a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

   Synonyms:
   grit, moxie, gumption, backbone, guts

2. Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevantnoun

   French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)

   Synonyms:
   grit, moxie, gumption, backbone, guts

3. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionverb

   fortitude and determination

   "he didn't have the guts to try it"

   Synonyms:
   mainstay, good sense, lynchpin, grit, mother wit, spine, sand, gritrock, horse sense, gritstone, spinal column, keystone, common sense, linchpin, back, backbone, gumption, anchor, rachis, moxie, guts, vertebral column, sense

4. sandpaper, sandverb

   rub with sandpaper

   "sandpaper the wooden surface"

   Synonyms:
   sandpaper, sand

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. sandnoun

   Synonyms:
   gravel, small pebbles

2. sandverb

   Synonyms:
   cover or sprinkle with sand

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. sandnoun

   Synonyms:
   sandy soil, quicksand, syrtis, arena (Med.)

   Associated words:
   dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness), psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious

2. sandnoun

   Synonyms:
   (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness, audacity, spirit

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "sand":

   sable, sands, sandy, sha, arena, sandstorm, sables, ostrich, berm, grit

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How to use SAND in a sentence?

1. Ken Dodd:

   Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.

2. zachary roderiques:

   Life is like an hour glass, every grain of sand means something.

3. Dante Alighieri:

   There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

4. Julia A. F. Carney:

   Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.

5. Mina Aziz mother:

   He was a worker, he used to carry sand and rocks, what else could he do? he didn't have a trade. He would have taken any job offered to him.