coincidence
/kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)ns/
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American sound/kəʊˈɪnsɪd(ə)ns/
kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Final e often stays silent
kəʊ - ˈɪnsɪdəns -> coincidence
Myanmar meaning
(n) တိုက်ဆိုင်မှု။ တစ်ထပ်တည်းကျမှု။
Full entry
coincidence /kǝƱ'ÇnsÇdǝns/ n
၁။ [C, U] တိုက်ဆိုင်မှု။
‘I'm going to Paris next week. ’ ‘What a coincidence! So am I. ’ ❍ By a strange coincidence we happened to be travelling on the same flight. ❍ The plot of the novel relies too much on coincidence to be convincing. ❍ By coincidence, both letters arrived on the same day.
၂။ [U] တစ်ထပ်တည်းကျမှု။
the coincidence of their ideas.
More examples
- [coincidence that] : It was rather a coincidence that she appeared at that exact moment.
- [by coincidence] : By coincidence, his teaching contract finished at about the same time his first book was published.
- [no coincidence] : It is no coincidence that coastal communities have often been deeply religious.
- [pure/sheer coincidence] : It might have been planned or it might have been pure coincidence.
- [coincidence of] : They have a substantial coincidence of business interests.
Synonyms
accident, chance, luck, fluke, twist of fate, quirk, happenstance, accidental happening, accompaniment, accord, accordance, agreement, agreement; coexistence, collaboration, concomitance, concurrence, conformity, conjunction, consonance, correlation, correspondence, eventuality, fate, fortuity, happening, happy accident, incident, link, parallelism, relationship, stroke of luck, synchronism, union
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