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Synonyms for moth

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mawth, moth
Phonetic Transcription : mɔθ, mɒθ

Top 10 synonyms for moth
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Définition of moth

Origin :
  • Old English moððe (Northumbrian mohðe), common Germanic (cf. Old Norse motti, Middle Dutch motte, Dutch mot, German Motte "moth"), perhaps related to Old English maða "maggot," or from the root of midge (q.v.). Until 16c. used mostly of the larva and usually in reference to devouring clothes (cf. Matt. vi:20).
  • As in insect : noun bug
  • As in caterpillar : noun worm
Example sentences :
  • Harvests perished like a moth that is singed in a candle-flame.
  • Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
  • She had been to an orph—to a place once with Moth—with Her and seen the aprons herself.
  • Extract from : « The Very Small Person » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
  • Her mood was all obsessed now with the conviction that this was the end to her life of a moth.
  • Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • The moth of this destructive caterpillar is called Leucania unipuncta.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 » by Various
  • I have told you often how the palace in Florence is shabby, eaten up with moth and rust.
  • Extract from : « Olive in Italy » by Moray Dalton
  • The bullet and the moth have torn And riddled well the dolmans dim.
  • Extract from : « Enamels and Cameos and other Poems » by Thophile Gautier
  • But when the moth saw his candle he brightened, and fluttered over to it.
  • Extract from : « Young Mr. Barter's Repentance » by David Christie Murray
  • This was the question for which the sprite had stopped the moth.
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Maya the Bee » by Waldemar Bonsels
  • As I said to myself, I was a moth, I wanted to play with fire.
  • Extract from : « Possessed » by Cleveland Moffett
  • What, then, was the fluttering of the moth but a monstrous intimation.
  • Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
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