formality
/fɔːˈmalɪti/
US pronunciation
American sound/fɔːˈmalɪti/
fɔːˈmalɪti
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- 4 syllables
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- 2nd syllable stress
- Vowel
- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
fɔː - ˈmalɪti -> formality
Myanmar meaning
(n) လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ်။ ခမ်းကြီးနားကြီး။ ဟန်ကြီးပန်ကြီး။ လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ် အခမ်းအနား။
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၁။ [U] လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ်။ ခမ်းကြီးနားကြီး။ ဟန်ကြီးပန်ကြီး။ different levels of formality
❍ He greeted her with cool formality.
❍ The formality of the room's furnishings was rather daunting.
၂။ [C often pl ] လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ် အခမ်းအနား။
He likes to keep formalities to the minimum. ❍ Let's skip the formalities and get down to business.
၃။ [C] (က) (often pl ) ရုံးလုပ်ငန်း၊ လုပ်ထုံး။
go through all the formalities to get a gun licence ❍ comply with the formalities.
(ခ) လုပ်ရိုးလုပ်စဉ်။ He knows he has the job so the interview is just a formality/ a mere formality.
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procedure, requirement, regulation, custom, ritual, ceremony, form, rule, academism, ceremoniousness, convenance, convention, conventionalism, conventionality, correctness, decorum, etiquette, formalism, gesture, honors, liturgy, matter of form, mummery, officialism, p's and q's, politesse, primness, propriety, protocol, punctiliousness, red tape, reserve, rite, rituality, rubric, service, smartness, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, stiffness, tradition
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