a big cheese

US pronunciation

American sounda big cheese

abigcheese

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final e often stays silent

a - big - cheese -> a big cheese

Myanmar meaning

(idm) အလွန်အရေးပါသော `ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ကြီး´။ အကောင်။

Full entry

big /bÇg/ adj (-gger , -ggest )

၁။ ကြီးသော။ ကြီးကျယ်သော။ …ကြီး။ …မ။ a big garden/man/majority/defeat/explosion/argument ❍ the big toe (ie the largest). ❍ a big ‘g’ (ie a capital G) ❍ (infml ) big money (ie a lot of money) ❍ the big screen (ie the cinema) ❍ The bigger (ie worse) the crime, the longer the jail sentence. ❍ He's the biggest liar (ie He tells more lies than anyone else) I know. ❍ She's a big eater/spender (ie She eats/spends a lot). ❍ He uses a lot of big (ie long or unusual) words. Compare small
၂။ အကြီး။ ကြီးပြီ (ဖြစ်သော)။ my big sister (ie my older sister) ❍ Don't cry—you're a big boy now!
၃။ အရေးပါသော။ the big match ❍ a big decision ❍ the biggest moment of my life.
၄။ (infml ) မဟာ။ ကြီးကြီးကျယ်ကျယ်။ have big ideas/plans.
၅။ (infml esp US ) ရေပန်းစားသော။ Video games are big this year. ❍ A lot of British bands are big in Japan.
၆။ ~ on sth (infml esp US ) အားပေး[သော]။ The firm is big on staff training programmes.
၇။ ~ of sb (esp ironic ) စေတနာ (မ) ကောင်းလိုက်ပုံများ။ It's very big of you to help, now that I've almost finished!
adv (sl )
၁။ ကြီးကြီးကျယ်ကျယ်။ We need to think big. ❍ He likes to talk big (ie to boast).
၂။ အောင်အောင်မြင်မြင်။ a band which comes/goes over big with pop fans worldwide. bigness n [U]
❏ be/get too big for one's boots [IDM ] (infml ) ဘဝင်ကိုင်သည်။ သွေးနားထင်ရောက်သည်။
❏ the Big Apple n [sing] (US sl ) နယူးယောက်မြို့တော်။ I've worked in the Big Apple for 20 years.
❏ big bang n (usu sing ) မဟာစကြဝဠာကြီး စတင် ဖြစ်ပေါ် လာစေသည့် ပေါက်ကွဲမှုကြီး။ the big bang theory.
❏ Big Brother n ပြည်သူ့အကျိုးလိုယောင်ဖြင့် ပြည်သူကို ချုပ်ကိုင်ခြယ်လှယ်သည့် ခေါင်းဆောင်၊ အစိုးရ။
❏ big business n [U] (ငွေကြေးပမာဏ ကြီးမားလှသည့်) စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းကြီး။
❏ a big cheese [IDM ] (sl derog ) အလွန်အရေးပါသော 'ပုတ်ကိုယ်ကြီး'။ အကောင်။
❏ big deal! [IDM ] (infml ironic ) ဒါလေးများ။ We're getting a wage increase of £40 a year, before tax. Big deal!
❏ the Big Dipper n (US ) = PLOUGH ၂
❏ big dipper n (Brit ) ထိုးဆင်းထိုးတက် ကွေ့ပတ်သွားသည့် အပျော်စီးရထား။ သည်းထိတ်ရင်ဖိုရထား။ See also ROLLER-COASTER
❏ big end n (အင်ဂျင်) ရော့တံတွင် ကရိုင်းရှပ်နှင့် အံကိုက် စွပ်တပ်နိုင်သည့် တစ်ဖက်စွန်း။
❏ a big fish (in a little pond) [IDM ] နေရာကွက်ကွက် ကလေးမှာ ဩဇာရှိသူ။
❏ big game n [U] အမဲ။ တောကောင်ကြီး။
❏ big-head n (infml ) ဘဝင်မြင့်သူ။ ဘဝင်။ big-headed adj
❏ big-hearted adj သဘောထားကြီးသော။ ကြင်နာတတ်သော။
❏ a big noise/shot/name [IDM ] (infml ) အရေးပါ သောပုဂ္ဂိုလ်။ ကြီးကြီးမာစတာ။
❏ the big stick [IDM ] စစ်ရေးအရအင်အားပြ ခြိမ်းခြောက်မှု။ စွယ်ယောင်ပြမှု။
❏ the big three, four, etc [IDM ] ကြီး ၃ ကြီး၊ ကြီး ၄ ကြီး စသည်။ a meeting of the big five.
❏ the big time [IDM ] (infml ) (အနုပညာသည်) စန်းအထဆုံး အချိန်။
❏ big top n (ဆပ်ကပ်တွင်) ပင်မရုံ။
❏ big wheel n = FERRIS WHEEL
❏ give sb/get a big hand [IDM ] ဖြောင်းဖြောင်းညံအောင် ဩဘာပေးသည်။ လက်ခုပ်ဩဘာသံပေးခြင်း ခံရသည်။ Let's all give her a big hand.
❏ have a big mouth [IDM ] လေလုံးထွားသည်။ နှုတ်ဖွာသည်။

More examples

A beautiful woman with big eyes
He kept all his secret papers in a big box.
[great big] : At the end of the lane was a great big house.
A big man stood in the doorway.
The company faces big problems.
The concerts have been a big success.
They were big fans of the Beatles.
A type of music that is big in America
We have another big game next week.
I had never been involved in making the big decisions before.
Big changes are likely to be made.
The place was full of big businessmen.
[big in] : Her mother is big in daytime television.
[the big two/three/four etc] : Other stores struggle to compete with the big four retailers.
Big Tobacco (=the major cigarette companies)
An important victory for Big Oil
Come on, you’re a big girl now (=old enough to behave like an adult).
This is my big brother, Jake.

Synonyms

large, full-size, life-size, a whale of a, adult, altruistic, ample, arrogant, arty, awash, benevolent, big league, big-time, bighearted, bigs, boastful, bragging, brimming, broad, bulky, bull, burly, capacious, chivalrous, chock-full, colossal, commodious, conceited, consequential, considerable, considerate, copious, crowded, cumbersome, deep, elder, eminent, enormous, extensive, fat, flamboyant, free, full, full-grown, generous, giant, gigantic, good, gracious, great, great big, greathearted, grown, grown-up, haughty, heavy-duty, heavyweight, hefty, heroic, high, high-sounding, huge, hulking, humongous, husky, immense, imperious, important, imposing, inflated, influential, jumbo, leading, liberal, lofty, magnanimous, main, major league, mammoth, massive, material, mature, meaningful, momentous, mondo, monster, noble, of age, older, outsize, overblown, oversize, packed, paramount, pompous, ponderous, popular, powerful, presumptuous, pretentious, prime, princely, principal, prodigious, prominent, proud, roomy, serious, significant, sizable, soaring, spacious, strapping, stuffed, substantial, super, super colossal, tall, thundering, towering, tremendous, unselfish, valuable, vast, voluminous, walloping, weighty, whopper, whopping, wide

Antonyms

adolescent, baby, babyish, blah, bland, cramped, dull, humble, impoverished, inconsiderable, infant, infantile, insignificant, itsy, juvenile, little, miniature, minor, minute, narrow, petite, poor, selfish, short, shy, slight, small, subordinate, teeny, thin, tiny, trivial, unconfident, ungenerous, ungiving, unimportant