Synonyms for buskin
Most common
boot top boot combat boot desert boot cothurnus cothurn tragedy tragedy mask
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Boot
2. Cothurnus — A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles…
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
- n. 2
A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.
Related words
- Word family
- buskined
- Phrases
- sock and buskin
Forms
- Plural
- buskins → boots, cothurni, cothurns, tragedies…
Example sentences
- boot A wife is not a boot. You can't just kick her off.
By length
- 4 letters
- boot1
- 6 letters
- caliga
- 7 letters
- tragedy3, cothurn
- 9 letters
- cothurnus
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tragedy3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- brodequin