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Another word for gesture

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Noun

  1. An expressive, meaningful bodily movement

    See also:

    express

  2. Something that takes the place of words in communicating a thought or feeling

    See also:

    show

Verb

  1. To make bodily motions so as to convey an idea or complement speech

    Idioms:
    See also:

    express

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Another word for gesture

Noun

  1. A deliberately significant motion

    See also:

    sign

  2. A formality or pretense

    See also:

    appearance

Verb
  1. See also:

    signal

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Dropping off home-cooked meals was a very nice gesture.

  • That was a nice gesture on someone's part.

  • Maria Theresa had undoubtedly an instinctive histrionic sense of the perspective of the theatre, and could adopt the appropriate attitude and gesture, passionate, dignified or pathetic, required to impress those she wished to influence.

  • The visitor made a gesture with her hand.

  • Jackson held Sarah's hand as a gesture of comfort.

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