sand martin

Questions about sand martin

What is another word for sand martin?

It depends which sand martin you mean. In the sense “swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks”, the synonyms are bank martin, bank swallow, Riparia riparia. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sand martin?

WordNet records no antonym for sand martin. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sand martin come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sand martin

• Full entry for sand martinAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sand martinWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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