What is another word for hands?

Synonyms for hands
hands

This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word hands.

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. hands, custodynoun

    (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child

    "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children"

    Synonyms:
    detention, work force, detainment, workforce, custody, manpower, men, hold

  2. work force, workforce, manpower, hands, mennoun

    the force of workers available

    Synonyms:
    work force, workforce, custody, manpower, men

Matched Categories

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. handsnoun

    Synonyms:
    CLUTCHES

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hands":

    hand, manos, eide, -hands, fingers, mains

Suggested Resources

  1. hands

    Song lyrics by hands -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by hands on the Lyrics.com website.

  2. Hands

    Hands vs. Hands-on -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Hands and Hands-on.

How to pronounce hands?

How to say hands in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#441men
#644hand
#1275hold
#1675hands
#5656workforce
#6405fingers
#7664custody
#10067detention
#14850mains
#15843manpower
#29502eide
#49895manos
#189417detainment

How to use hands in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Chad Wolf:

    So when you close down those pathways like the Biden administration did, they are essentially tying their hands what they can do with these folks and some would say — and I would argue — that's done by design because the only option they really want to do at the end of the day is to release them into the United States.

  3. Ben Bajarin:

    That helps them get the product more affordably into the hands of more customers and increases the base, every data point seems to say, if you get someone into the Apple ecosystem, they generally don't leave.

  4. The Saints:

    You have to take pictures with anyone who asks. You ca n’t refuse a picture with anyone. If there’s a sloppy drunk who you know just wants to put his hands on you, you just have to deal with it and do it.

  5. Hillary Clinton:

    Now, the truth is, life hands all of us setbacks.


Translations for hands

From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary

Get even more translations for hands »

Translation

Find a translation for the hands synonym in other languages:

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Citation

Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"hands." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/hands>.

Discuss these hands synonyms with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good synonym for hands?

    Image or illustration of

    hands

    Credit »

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant synonyms for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Synonyms.com

    Quiz

    Are you a human thesaurus?

    »
    What is a synonym for bounty?
    A Plentiful
    B Empty
    C Shallow
    D Scares

    Nearby & related entries:

    Alternative searches for hands: