sands

The word “sands” has 1 syllable: sands

It's pronounced as /sændz/


What is synonym and antonym for sands?

In the thesaurus, “sands” has 54 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sands along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sands

  • bank
  • beach
  • beachfront
  • border
  • brim
  • brink
  • buffs
  • burnishes
  • coast
  • coastland
  • coastline
  • dresses
  • edges
  • embankment
  • esplanade
  • files
  • glosses
  • grinds
  • hones
  • lakeshore
  • lakeside
  • lido
  • littoral
  • margin
  • oceanfront
  • plage
  • planes
  • polishes
  • rasps
  • regrinds
  • riverbank
  • riverfront
  • riverside
  • rubs
  • sand
  • sandblasts
  • scours
  • scrapes
  • seaboard
  • seacoast
  • seashore
  • seaside
  • sharpens
  • shines
  • shingle
  • shore
  • shorefront
  • shoreline
  • smoothes
  • smooths
  • strand
  • strops
  • waterfront
  • whets

Antonyms for sands

  • center
  • coarsens
  • inland
  • interior
  • middle
  • roughens
  • scuffs

Meanings of sands

  • noun
    1. Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
    2. (often in the plural) A beach or other expanse of sand.
    3. (circa 1920) Personal courage.
    4. A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
    5. A light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
    6. A single grain of sand.
    7. A moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life (referring to the sand in an hourglass).
    8. A sandpiper.
  • verb
    1. To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
    2. To cover with sand.
    3. To blot ink using sand.

Example Sentences

  • Sands from the beach clung to his feet as he walked back to the shore.
  • The archaeologist sifted through the sands to uncover ancient artifacts buried beneath.
  • She loved the feeling of the warm sands between her toes as she strolled along the coastline.
  • The wind carried the fine sands of the desert across the vast expanse.
  • As the sun set, the shadows lengthened over the shifting sands of the dunes.

On this page you'll find 61 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sands, such as: bank, beach, beachfront, border, brim, brink, buffs.

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abundances

  • armies
  • barrels
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  • bevies
  • boatloads
  • bonanzas
  • buckets
  • bunches
  • bundles
  • bushels
  • carloads
  • chunks
  • crams
  • crowds
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  • deals
  • deluges
  • dozen
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  • embarrassments
  • epidemics
  • excesses
  • fistfuls
  • flocks
  • floods
  • gazillions
  • gobs
  • good deals
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hordes
  • hosts
  • hundred
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  • jillions
  • kazillions
  • lashings
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  • legions
  • loads
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  • plagues
  • platefuls
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  • plenties
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  • plethoras
  • potfuls
  • pots
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  • quite a bit
  • rafts
  • rashes
  • reams
  • redundancies
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  • scores
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  • sheaves
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  • sights
  • slews
  • spates
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  • stores
  • superabundances
  • superfluities
  • surfeits
  • surpluses
  • swarms
  • thousands
  • throngs
  • tons
  • trillions
  • truckloads
  • volumes
  • wads
  • wealths
  • yards
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deal

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  • cram
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  • epidemic
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  • fire sale
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  • gift
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  • gobs
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  • hand
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  • handle
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  • mob
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  • oodles
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  • quarrel
  • quibble
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  • raft
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  • redundancy
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  • situation
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  • speculate
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  • standing
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  • steal
  • stock
  • store
  • story
  • strike
  • superabundance
  • superfluity
  • supply
  • surety
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • swap
  • swarm
  • tag sale
  • take
  • thousands
  • throng
  • ton
  • trade
  • traffic
  • transact
  • transaction
  • treat
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  • trillion
  • troth
  • truckload
  • undersell
  • understanding
  • vend
  • volume
  • vow
  • wad
  • warranty
  • wealth
  • wheel and deal
  • wholesale
  • windfall
  • word
  • work out deal
  • wrangle
  • yard
  • yard sale
  • zillion

deals

  • OKs
  • abundances
  • acceptances
  • accords
  • agreements
  • alliances
  • approvals
  • argues
  • armies
  • assents
  • associations
  • assurances
  • auctions
  • bails
  • ball games
  • bargains
  • barrels
  • barters
  • basketfuls
  • basketsful
  • bevies
  • bickers
  • binders
  • black-markets
  • boatloads
  • bonanzas
  • bonds
  • bonuses
  • boons
  • bootlegs
  • buckets
  • bunches
  • bundles
  • bushels
  • buys
  • carloads
  • chaffers
  • charters
  • cheapies
  • chunks
  • clashes
  • clearances
  • closeouts
  • compacts
  • comparison shops
  • concordats
  • concurrences
  • consents
  • contracts
  • conventions
  • corners
  • covenants
  • crams
  • crowds
  • crushes
  • cuts a deal
  • day-trades
  • deluges
  • deposits
  • dickers
  • dispositions
  • distributes
  • dozen
  • dozens
  • droves
  • embarrassments
  • engrosses
  • entente cordiales
  • ententes
  • epidemics
  • excesses
  • exchanges
  • fair-trades
  • fairs
  • fences
  • fights
  • fire sales
  • fistfuls
  • flocks
  • floods
  • footings
  • freebees
  • freebies
  • garage sales
  • gazillions
  • gifts
  • giveaways
  • gobs
  • good deals
  • guarantees
  • guaranties
  • haggles
  • hassles
  • hawks
  • heaps
  • herds
  • hordes
  • horse-trades
  • hosts
  • hundred
  • hundreds
  • insurances
  • invests
  • jillions
  • jumble sales
  • kazillions
  • lashings
  • lashins
  • leagues
  • legions
  • loads
  • lots
  • markdowns
  • markets
  • masses
  • merchandises
  • merchandizes
  • messes
  • million
  • millions
  • mobs
  • monopolizes
  • mountains
  • much
  • multiplicities
  • multitudes
  • myriads
  • negotiates
  • negotiations
  • oaths
  • okays
  • oodles
  • overabundances
  • overages
  • overflows
  • overkills
  • overmuch
  • oversupplies
  • packs
  • pacts
  • palters
  • partnerships
  • passels
  • pawns
  • pecks
  • peddles
  • pennyworth
  • pennyworths
  • picks up
  • pictures
  • piles
  • places
  • plagues
  • platefuls
  • pledges
  • plenitudes
  • plenties
  • plentitudes
  • plethoras
  • postures
  • potfuls
  • pots
  • premiums
  • presents
  • presses
  • profusions
  • promises
  • purchases
  • quantities
  • quarrels
  • quibbles
  • quite a bit
  • rafts
  • ranks
  • rashes
  • reams
  • rebuys
  • redundancies
  • resells
  • retails
  • rummage sales
  • sales
  • scads
  • scenes
  • scores
  • seals
  • seas
  • securities
  • sells
  • settlements
  • sheaves
  • shiploads
  • sights
  • silent auctions
  • situations
  • slews
  • smuggles
  • snips
  • spates
  • speculates
  • spots
  • squabbles
  • stacks
  • standings
  • states
  • status quos
  • statuses
  • steals
  • stores
  • stories
  • superabundances
  • superfluities
  • supplies
  • sureties
  • surfeits
  • surpluses
  • swaps
  • swarms
  • tag sales
  • takes
  • thousands
  • throngs
  • tons
  • trades
  • traffics
  • transactions
  • transacts
  • treaties
  • trillions
  • troths
  • truckloads
  • undersells
  • understandings
  • vends
  • volumes
  • vows
  • wads
  • warranties
  • wealths
  • wheels and deals
  • wholesales
  • windfalls
  • words
  • wrangles
  • yard sales
  • yards
  • zillions

gaults

  • alluvia
  • alluviums
  • blacklands
  • clays
  • clods
  • colluvia
  • colluviums
  • detritus
  • dirt
  • duffs
  • dust
  • earth
  • gleys
  • gooks
  • gravels
  • ground
  • gucks
  • gumbos
  • humuses
  • kaolins
  • loams
  • loesses
  • marls
  • molds
  • muck
  • muds
  • mulls
  • sands
  • sediments
  • shingles
  • silts
  • subsoils
  • substrata
  • topsoils

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