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Synonyms for cabbage

Most common

bread lettuce kale lolly vegetable spinach cupcake chou

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

2. Plant — the leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable

greens, cole

Verb

1. Abstract — to embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal

abstract, steal, pinch, sneak, hook, purloin, pilfer, lift, swipe, filch, crib, pillage, snarf slang, nobble slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

  2. n. 2

    An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.

  3. v. 1

    To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.

Forms

Plural
cabbages → kales, lettuces, sugars, breads…
Past participle
cabbaged
e.g. cabbaged → abstracted, pinched, sneaked, hooked…

Example sentences

  • bread A loaf of bread is better than the songs of birds.
  • lettuce What's the difference between cabbage and lettuce?
  • kale Benedito uses a mix of kale and spinach in his salad.
  • lolly When was the last time you had an ice lolly?
  • vegetable We have a small vegetable garden behind our house.
  • spinach Mary doesn't like spinach, so she didn't eat any.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
cabbagesteady
breadrising
lettucesteady
kalerising
lollyrising
vegetablesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
lift1, hook1, cole1, loot1, crib1, kale1, chou1, gelt, pelf
5 letters
sugar2, bread1, steal1, sneak1, dough1, pinch1, swipe1, lolly2, lucre, filch1, snarf
6 letters
greens1, moolah, dinero, bootle, wampum2, pilfer2, nobble
7 letters
scratch1, lettuce2, spinach2, cupcake2, pillage2, purloin2
8 letters
abstract2
9 letters
vegetable3, simoleons

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sugar2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
chou
Italiano
cavolo
Español
col
Deutsch
Kohl