Synonyms for leg
lɛgleg

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. legnoun

   a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

2. legnoun

   a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

3. legnoun

   one of the supports for a piece of furniture

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

4. branch, leg, ramificationnoun

   a part of a forked or branching shape

   "he broke off one of the branches"

   Synonyms:
   branching, stage, ramification, wooden leg, pegleg, peg, arm, offshoot, subdivision, forking, complication, outgrowth, fork, limb, offset, branch

5. legnoun

   the limb of an animal used for food

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

6. peg, wooden leg, leg, peglegnoun

   a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg

   Synonyms:
   branch, stage, nog, pegleg, stick, oarlock, pin, ramification, rowlock, tholepin, wooden leg, peg, thole

7. legnoun

   a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

8. legnoun

   (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack

   Synonyms:
   peg, wooden leg, pegleg, stage, ramification, branch

9. stage, legnoun

   a section or portion of a journey or course

   "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"

   Synonyms:
   branch, stage, level, pegleg, peg, stagecoach, degree, point, ramification, wooden leg, phase, microscope stage

Matched Categories

1. • Cloth Covering
   • Cut
   • Distance
   • Limb
   • Navigation
   • Prosthesis
   • Subfigure
   • Support
   • Travel

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:2.4 / 5 votes

1. legnoun

   Synonyms:
   limb, shank, shin, (bones of the leg) tibia, fibula, femur, thigh bone, epipodiale

   Associated words:
   crotch, hock, hough, solen, cradle, puttee, hip, thigh, haunch gyve, scarpines, calf, galligaskins, spatterdashes, leggings

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "leg":

   thigh, pata, ieg, legs, paw, tranche, legform, station, foot, brisket, gea, powa, limb

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. leg

   Synonyms:
   crus

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1. Thatcher Demko:

   I got my eyes on it, kind of noticed he was in a good enough spot to raise it so I was just trying to elevate my leg, too, a little bit to help give me a chance to get a piece of it, it was kind of sitting there on the goal line for a split second. Luckily we were able to live to see another day.

2. Miriam Hibel:

   If you're sitting at the cat cafe and you're having a cup of coffee and this beautiful 10-year-old calico cat comes and rubs up against your leg, and you're someone who is open to adopting, you're just as likely to have your heart connect to that cat as Julian, who is 10 months old.

3. Jake Schick:

   If you have broken bones and severed ligaments, you can have a prosthetic leg like I’ve got. But you can’t have a prosthetic brain.

4. Darryl Clinton.The:

   It just took my leg out and threw me against the wall, the most extreme force I've ever felt in my life.

5. Adrian Peterson:

   No one knows how I felt when I turned Adrian Peterson child around after spanking him and seeing what I had left on his leg, No one knows that Dad sat there and apologized to him, hugged him and told him that I didn't mean to do this to you and how sorry I was.