be around

US pronunciation

American soundbe around

bearound

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

be - around -> be around

Myanmar meaning

(idm) နာမည်ကြီးသည်။ ထင်ရှားသည်။

Full entry

around /ǝ'raƱnd/ adv

၁။ (infml ) ခန့်။ လောက်။ around 100 people ❍ He arrived (at) around five o'clock. ❍ The work will be finished (by) around Christmas. ❍ They were fashionable (at) around the turn of the century. ဒါတွေဟာ ရာစုနှစ်ကုန်တစ်ဝိုက်လောက်မှာ ခေတ်စားခဲ့တယ်။
၂။ ပတ်ပတ်လည်။ အရပ်ရှစ်မျက်နှာ(မှ)။ hear laughter all around.
၃။ လုံးပတ်အားဖြင့်။ အဝန်းအားဖြင့်။ an old tree that was six feet around. Compare ABOUT adv
adv part
၁။ (က) ဟိုဟိုသည်သည်။ run/ drive/ walk/ look around ❍ travel around in Europe for six weeks.
(ခ) (နေရာ) အနှံ့။ books left around on the floor ❍ children palying around on the sand.
(ဂ) အားအား ယားယား။ Several young girls were sitting around looking bored.
၂။ ရနိုင်(လျက်)။ There was more money around in those days. ❍ New potatoes will be around in the supermarkets soon. ❍ Cable television has been around for some time now. ကြိုးသွယ် ရုပ်မြင်သံကြားတွေ ပေါ်နေတာ အတော်ကြာပြီ။
၃။ (က) အနီးတစ်ဝိုက်။ I can't see anyone around. ❍ See you soon, I expect —I'll be around. နောက်တော့ ဆုံကြသေးတာပေါ့။ ကျွန်တော် ရှိနေမှာ ပါ။ (ခ) (နေရာတစ်ခု၏) တစ်ခွင်၊ တစ်ဝိုက်။ I'll send someone to show you around. ❍ You have 15 minutes to look around.
၄။ နောက်သို့ပြန်လှည့်လျက်။ Turn around. ပြန်လှည့်။ Compare ABOUT adv part ❍ ROUND
prep (esp US )
၁။ (က) နေရာအနှံ့။ running around the playground ❍ travel around the world.
(ခ) ဟိုဟို သည်သည်။ အနှံအပြား။ Chairs were left scattered around the room. ❍ Blobs of paint were dotted around the canvas.
၂။ နေရာအတွင်း။ နေရာအနီး။ It's around here somewhere. ဒီနားတစ်နေရာရာမှာရှိတယ်။ ❍ I saw him around the office this morning.
၃။ (က) ပတ်ကာ။ ဖက် ကာ။ There was a red belt around his waist. ❍ He put his arms around her.
(ခ) ဝိုင်းလျက်။ ပတ်လျက်။ run around the block ❍ The earth moves around the sun.
(ဂ) ကွေ့လျက်။ ဝိုက်လျက်။ going around the corner at 80 mph. Compare ABOUT prep
❏ be around [IDM ] နာမည်ကြီးသည်။ ထင်ရှားသည်။ a new tennis champion who could be around for a long time ❍ She's been around as a film director since the 1970s.
❏ have been around [IDM ] အတွေ့အကြုံ ရှိခဲ့သည်။ (အထူးသဖြင့်) ကာမကျမ်းကျေသည်။ He pretends he's been around but he's really very immature. နောကျေနေတဲ့ ပုံဖမ်းနေပေမဲ့ ဝါကတော့နုပါသေးတယ်။ ❍ I've been around a bit—I've learned a thing or two. တစ်ခုစနှစ်ခုစ ဆိုသလို ပညာတော့တိုးသား။

More examples

The Earth goes around the Sun.
The wind makes the windmill’s sails spin around.
We drove around looking for a hotel.
I wish you’d stop following me around.
There’s a rumour going around that she’s leaving her job.
Martha heard a noise and spun around to see what it was.
When we got to the border, the guards made us turn around and go back.
At that moment a truck came rushing around the corner.
Go around to the back of the house and see if anyone’s in the garden.
Arrange the chairs around the table.
Sam had his arm around Mandy’s waist.
Everyone crowded around the little dog.
A cottage with woods all around
They have about 15 offices scattered around the country.
Why are all those clothes lying around on the floor?
The Games were watched by millions of people around the world.
The quiet country roads around Chester
Is your wife around? I’d like to talk to her.
[in and around] : People living in and around the Chernobyl area were the worst affected.
[somewhere around] : The factory is in Sacramento, or somewhere around there.
[for miles around] : It’s one of the most popular restaurants for miles around.
She said her husband hadn’t been around when she really needed him.
The place gets so messy when the children are around.
Brian had been around London for years, and knew all the right people.

Synonyms

approximately, about, in the region of, just about, roughly, in the order of, something like, more or less, roughly speaking, give or take a few, almost, nearly, going on for, across, alive, alive and kicking, all around, all over, all over the place, all the time, all through, all time, along toward, any which way, approximal, at close quarters, at full length, available, ballpark, circumambient, circumference, circumferential, circumforaneous, close at hand, close by, close shave, close to, close-at-hand, close-by, covering, encompassing, every bit, everyplace, everywhere, extant, far and near, for the duration, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from one place to another, from place to place, from start to finish, from the start, from the word go, give or take, going on, going strong, hair's breadth, here, here and there, in, in all respects, in close proximity, in current use, in every place, in everything, in the area, in the environs, in the neighborhood, in the vicinity, in this area, in use, inside and out, living, more completely, near, near here, near-at-hand, nearby, neck of woods, neighboring, next door, not lost, not remote, on all accounts, over, present, present day, pretty near, proximal, right through, round, round here, roundabout, roundabouts, side-by-side, surrounding, the end, the whole time, through the whole of, throughout, to end, to the end, undestroyed, up and down, vicinage, vicinity, vincinal, within stone's throw, zoetic