family
/ˈfamɪli/
- Syllables
- 3 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
fa - mi - ly -> family
(n) မိသားစု။ (adj) မိသားစုဆန်
၁။ (က) [CGp] မိသားစု။ help for families on low incomes ❍ Almost every family in the country owns a television. ❍ All (the members of) my family enjoy skiing. ❍ The new tax will cost the average British family of four an extra £ 10 a week. ❍ He's a friend of the family (ie He is known and liked by the parents and their children). ❍ a family tradition ❍ the family car ❍ your family doctor.
(ခ) [CGp] မိဘ သားသမီးများနှင့် ဆွေမျိုးရင်းချာများပါသော မိသားစု။ All our family came to our grandfather's eightieth birthday party. ❍ the Royal Family (ie the children and close relations of the king or queen) ❍ a family-owned company ❍ a family-run hotel ❍ have no family ties. See also EXTENDED FAMILY, NUCLEAR FAMILY (ဂ) ယင်းမိသားစုအားလုံး။ a family- show ❍ family entertainment.
၂။ (က) [CGp] လင် (သို့) မယားနှင့် သားသမီးများ။ prisoners and their families ❍ the victim's family and friends. (ခ) [CGp, U] သားသမီးများ။ Address the letter to Mr and Mrs Jones and family. ❍ They have a large family.
၃။ (က) [CGp] အမျိုးအနွယ်။ Some families have farmed in this area for hundreds of years. ❍ She comes from a famous family. ❍ the family silver. (ခ) [U] မျိုးနွယ်စဉ်ဆက်။ မျိုးရိုး။ a man of good family.
၄။ [C] မျိုးရင်း။ Lions belong to the cat family. ❍ the Germanic family of languages.
❏ (put sb / be) in the family way [IDM] (infml ) ကိုယ်ဝန်ရှိအောင် ကျူးလွန်မိသည်။ ကိုယ်ဝန်ရှိသည်။
❏ run in the family [IDM ] မျိုးရိုးလိုက်သည်။ Red hair runs in his family.
❏ family credit n [U] (ဗြိတိန်တွင်) သတ်မှတ် ဝင်ငွေအောက် နည်းနေသည့် မိသားစုကို အစိုးရက ထောက်ပံ့ငွေ။ မိသားစု ထောက်ပံ့ငွေ။
❏ family man n (pl men ) အိမ်ထောင်ရှင် ယောကျ်ား။
❏ family name n မိသားစုအမည်။ a surname ❍ NAME1
❏ family planning n [U] မိသားစု စီမံကိန်း။ (မိသားစု အတွင်း သားသမီးယူရေး၊ ယူမည့်အရေအတွက်၊ သားဆက်ခြားခြင်း စသည်)။ go along to the family planning clinic.
❏ family tree n ဆွေမျိုးဆက်ဇယား။
- A family with two children live next door.
- Is the Watson family going to be there?
- He grew up in a large working-class family.
- [single-parent/two-parent family] : Single-parent families are increasingly common.
- [a family of four/five etc] : The tent is big enough for a family of six.
- Does your family have any history of heart disease?
- She did not want the property to go to anyone outside the family.
- [be in someone’s/the family] : The boatyard had been in his family for four generations.
- We spent the holiday period visiting family in Scotland.
- We ought to help him – after all, he is family.
- [friends and family/family and friends] : We had Christmas lunch in the company of family and friends.
- [one of the family] : He’s like one of the family.
- The soldier had a wife and family.
- [start/have a family] : They want to get married and start a family.
- [bring up/raise a family] : It’s difficult raising a family on one salary.
- Kidney beans belong to the bean family.
- Athletic ability runs in the family: his father played basketball in college and his mother was a high school athlete.
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