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Synonyms for arrow
ˈær oʊar·row

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Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 1 vote

  1. arrow, pointernoun

    a mark to indicate a direction or relation

    Synonyms:
    cursor, pointer

  2. arrownoun

    a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow

    Synonyms:
    pointer

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bolt

    a shaft sharpened at the front and with feathers or vanes at the back, shot from a bow as a weapon or for sport.

    his ability to launch an arrow accurately.

    Submitted by JP03 on October 7, 2015  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. arrownoun

    Synonyms:
    dart, shaft, bolt

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. arrownoun

    Synonyms:
    dart, matras

    Associated words:
    barb, ouabain, sagittal, sagittary, quiver, sheaf, belomancy

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "arrow":

    icon, arrows, deflection, cursor, araud, spire, spit, arrowhead, spike, boom

Nicknames0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of known nicknames for "Arrow":

    Alphonsus Cassell, Alphonsus Celestine Edmund Cassell

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How to use arrow in a sentence?

  1. Akhenaton:

    The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

  2. Dr Shipton:

    You start to see things like decorated bones, beads made from marine shell or ostrich eggs, miniaturzied stone tools, and bones carved into things like arrow points. This is the oldest date we have for when this behavior is first observed, previous sites relating to this early period of modern humanbehaviorr have all been in South Africa and the East African Rift Valley, this is the first site on the coast of East Africa and the first with such a continuous record.

  3. Theo Bronkhorst:

    It was a magnificent, mature lion, we did not know it was well-known lion. I had a license for my client to shoot a lion with a bow and arrow in the area where it was shot.

  4. Hisham Zaazou:

    I act as if there's a problem. I act because the world sees things from a specific angle. We say perception is reality so I deal with this perception, we have had problems since 30 years but the arrow of tourism has always pointed upwards ... This proves the industry is resilient.

  5. Aesop:

    The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.


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