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. Bob Paglia:

   It felt like sand hitting you in the face.

2. Jorge Luis Borges:

   Nothing is built on stone all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

3. Ramona Bessinger:

   I'm refusing to propagate lies. I can't do that as a parent and as a teacher. I simply cannot do that. So let the cards fall where they may, i mean, what kind of a human being would I be if I simply went along with this and buried my head in the sand? What kind of a mother would I be? What kind of an educator would I be? So, no, I have no choice but to go public.

4. Constance Naden:

   He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.

5. Feltham:

   The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.