leisure
/ˈlɛʒə/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈlɛʒə/
leisure
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- 2 syllables
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- Final e often stays silent
lei - sure -> leisure
Myanmar meaning
(n) နားနေချိန်။ အားလပ်ချိန်။
Full entry
leisure / 'leʒǝ(r); US 'li:ʒǝr / n [U]
နားနေချိန်။ အားလပ်ချိန်။
increased leisure time ❍ a range of leisure activities.
❏ at leisure [IDM ]
၁။ (fml ) နားနားနေနေ။ The rest of the day may be spent at leisure (ie You can do what you like).
၂။ နားနားနေနေ။ အေးအေးဆေးဆေး။ I’ll take the report home and read it at leisure.
❏ at one’s leisure [IDM ] အေးအေးလူလူ။ နားနားနေနေ။
❏ leisure centre (Brit ) (US health club ) n အများဆိုင် အားကစားနှင့် အနားယူစခန်း။
❏ leisured / 'leʒǝd / adj အားအားယားယား နေနိုင်သော။ the leisured classes.
❏ leisurely adj, adv အေးအေးဆေးဆေး။ စိမ်ပြေနပြေ။ walk at a leisurely pace ❍ enjoy a leisurely drink.
More examples
- My busy schedule leaves little time for leisure.
- The leisure industry
- [leisure pursuits/activities] : Home-based leisure pursuits such as watching television
- [leisure facilities/opportunities] : The hotel offers a wide range of leisure facilities.
- A rare moment of leisure
- [leisure time] : I’m looking forward to more leisure time in my retirement.
- [have the leisure to do something] : I don’t have the leisure to sit back and enjoy the scenery.
Synonyms
free time, spare time, time off, freedom, vacation, holiday, leisure time, R & R, amateur, chance, convenience, ease, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, recreational, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, sports, time, time out, unemployment, vacant hour
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