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Synonyms for ledge
lɛdʒledge

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Princeton's WordNet3.1 / 7 votes

  1. ledge, shelfnoun

    a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water

    Synonyms:
    shelf

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Dictionary of English Synonymes4.0 / 2 votes

  1. ledgenoun

    Synonyms:
    shelf

  2. ledgenoun

    Synonyms:
    ridge of rocks

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.3 / 6 votes

  1. ledgenoun

    Synonyms:
    shelf, reef, ridge (of rocks), layer, stratum, lode

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "ledge":

    cornice, tablet, edge, rim, sill

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How to use ledge in a sentence?

  1. Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris:

    I’m aware I’m going out on a ledge, but I live my life on ledges, we’re interested in going in a positive direction until we’re stopped.

  2. Curtis Reissig Reissig:

    It was the firefighters, but it was God working through the firefighters. It was God working through Curtis to have the forethought of thinking it out and going to that next ledge . . . it wasn't just that traffic was OK that day. It wasn't just that all the lights were just right. He put all that in motion. i'm the one running away from the flames, and they're running toward it . . . to save people like me, or you know, people in bad places.

  3. Ben Hayes:

    He had crossed over a metal railing to get closer to the cliff edge where he lost his footing and fell in, park officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation with the Hawaii County Fire Department and around 9 p.m. local time search and rescue located the man. He was seriously injured, perched on a narrow ledge 70 feet from the cliff edge.

  4. Rana Abdelhamid:

    You can be attacked at any point. You can be pushed off ... of a subway ledge.

  5. Kate Bowman:

    I could barely see anything and I could barely hear anything, he stepped over the ledge to try to get to me, and he was washed away.


Translations for ledge

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  • حافةArabic
  • impostaCatalan, Valencian
  • Ader, Regalbrett, Schenkel, Band, Gesims, Rücken, Sturz, Vorsprung, Überhang, Felsband, Felsplatt, Platte, Felsvorsprung, Sims, Stufe, Leiste, Kante, Schicht, LageGerman
  • repisaSpanish
  • kerros, kieleke, mineraalisuoni, hylly, kallionkielekeFinnish
  • linteau, cornicheFrench
  • oirScottish Gaelic
  • mensola, filone, cengia, scaffale, ripiano, stralpo, stratoItalian
  • ader, ertslaagDutch
  • prateleira, borda, camadaPortuguese
  • полка, шельф, выступ, уступ, край, слой, залежь, пластRussian
  • தொங்குபாறைTamil

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