grace
/ɡreɪs/
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- 1 syllable
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- One strong syllable
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- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> grace
(n) ကျက်သရေရှိခြင်း။ (vt,vi) တင့်တယ်စေသည်။
၁။ [U] ကျက်သရေ။ တင့်တယ်ခြင်း။ ညက်ညောမှု။ ကြော့ရှင်းခြင်း။ dance/ walk/ move with grace.
၂။ [U] ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကရုဏာတော်။ ဘုရားသခင်၏ ကျေးဇူးတော်။ By the grace of God their lives were spared. ❍ Did he die in a state of grace (ie strengthened and inspired by God, esp after having prayed and been blessed by a priest)? ❍ (saying ) There, but for the grace of God, go I. ဘုရားကျေးဇူးတော်ကြောင့် သူ့လို ဒုက္ခ မရောက်တာ။
၃။ [U] သတ်မှတ်ချိန် ရွှေ့ဆိုင်းပေးခြင်း။ Payment is due today, but I gave her a week's grace (ie an extra week to pay).
၄။ [U] မျက်နှာသာပေးခြင်း။ မျက်နှာသာပေးမှု။ He had been the king's favourite, and his sudden fall from grace surprised everyone.
၅။ [C usu pl ] လူမှုရေး ရည်မွန်မှု။ well-versed in the social graces.
၆။ [U,C] (ထမင်းမစားမီ ကျေးဇူးတော် ချီးမွမ်းစကား)။ Shall I say grace? See also saving grace
၇။ His/ Her/ Your Grace [C] (မြို့စား၊ မြို့စားကတော် (သို့) ခရစ်ယာန်ဂိုဏ်းချုပ်ကို ခေါ်ရာ၌ အမည် အစားသုံးသော အာလုပ်စကား)။ Good morning, Your Grace! ❍ Their Graces, the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
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၁။ တန်ဆာဆင်သည်။ ဆင်ယင်သည်။ Fine paintings graced the walls of the room.
၂။ ~ sb/ sth (with sth) (တက်ရောက်) ချီးမြှင့်သည်။ The occasion was graced by the presence of the Queen. ❍ (ironic ) Supper's ready __ are you going to grace us with your presence?
❏ be in sb's good graces [IDM ] မျက်နှာသာပေး ခံရသည်။ (ဗန်း) ကြည်သည်။ I'm not in her good graces at the moment.
❏ have the grace to do sth [IDM ] မရိုင်းသင့်။ He might have had the grace to say he was sorry!
❏ with (a) bad/ good grace [IDM ] ဆောင့်ကြီး အောင့်ကြီး (သို့) ကြည်ကြည်သာသာ။ She accepted his apology with (a) good grace. ❍ He handed over the money with (a) bad grace.
- She moved with natural grace.
- The grace of Greek architecture
- She captures the character’s essential gentleness and grace.
- [have the (good) grace to do something] : He should have the grace to admit he was wrong.
- [with (good/a good) grace] : Davis accepted the defeat with good grace.
- [with bad/a bad/an ill grace] : She responded with an ill grace to our appeal for help.
- Eric, would you like to say grace?
- [by/through God’s grace] : It was only by God’s grace that we were saved.
- [state of grace] : He died in a state of grace.
- Could you give me a couple of days’ grace to pay the rent?
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