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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar

en

living

/ˈlɪvɪŋ/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈlɪvɪŋ/

living

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final ng sound

li - ving -> living

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အသက်ရှိ (v[ing]) ရှင်နေ

Full entry

living / 'lÇvÇŋ / adj

၁။ အသက်ရှိသော။ အသက်ရှင်လျက် ရှိသော။ all living things ❍ the finest living pianist ❍ No man living could have done better.
၂။ အသုံးပြုဆဲဖြစ်သော။ ကျင့်သုံးဆဲ၊ တည်ရှိဆဲဖြစ်သော။ ရှင်သန်လျက်ရှိသော။ living languages (ie those still spoken) ❍ a living hope / faith / reality.
n
၁။ [C usu sing ] (က) အသက်မွေးမှု။ ပရိယေသန။ ဝမ်းစာ။ earn one’s living as a journalist / from writing ❍ scrape a living from part-time tutoring ❍ make a good / an adequate / a meagre living ❍ What do you do for a living?
၂။ [U] နေထိုင်စားသောက်ပုံ။ လူနေမှု။ plain/ healthy living ❍ Their standard of living is very low. ❍ The cost of living seems to go up every day.
၃။ [C] (Brit) ခရစ်ယာန်ဘုန်းတော်ကြီးအတွက် အသင်း တော်နယ်ပယ်မှ ရရှိသည့် စားပိုင်ခွင့်နှင့်ရာထူး။
❏ be living proof of sth / that … [IDM ] မားမားမတ်မတ် သက်သေအထောက်အထား။ He is living proof that engineers are not boring. ❍ These figures are living proof of their incompetence.
❏ the living n [pl v ] အသက်ရှင်ဆဲရှိသူများ။ the living and the dead.
❏ living death n [sing] သေသည်ထက်ဆိုးဝါးသော ဘဝ။
❏ living-room (also esp Brit sitting-room ) n ဧည့်ခန်း။ Compare DRAWING-ROOM
❏ living wage n [sing] လူတန်းစေ့နေထိုင်ရန် လိုအပ်သော အနည်းဆုံးလုပ်ခ၊ လခ။
❏ within/in living memory [IDM ] သိမီသူများ မှတ်မိ လောက်သည့် ကာလ အတောအတွင်း။ မှတ်မိသရွေ့။ the coldest winter in living memory.

More examples

He has no living relatives.
She’s arguably the sexiest living film star.
Their religion is based on a respect for all living things.
Living conditions for the troops are relatively comfortable.

Synonyms

livelihood, income, living wage, source of revenue, active, alert, alimentation, alive, animated, around, awake, barely exist, bodily, bread and butter, breathing, brisk, contemporary, continuing, corporeal, current, developing, dynamic, eke out a living, eke out an existence, eke out existence, existence, existent, existing, extant, funds, hang in, hanging in, in the flesh, in use, incarnate, job, just make it, keep, live, lively, maintenance, make ends meet, make it, means, means of support, mode, occupation, ongoing, operative, organic, persisting, quick, remain alive, ride out, riding out, salt, scrape by, stay alive, stick it out, stick with it, strong, subsist, subsistence, subsisting, support, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, ticking, vigorous, vital, warm, way, work

Antonyms

apathetic, asleep, dead, entertainment, fun, inactive, lethargic, pastime, sluggish

Cross references

livelihood income living wage source of revenue active alert alimentation alive animated around awake barely exist bodily bread and butter breathing brisk contemporary continuing corporeal current developing dynamic eke out a living eke out an existence eke out existence existence existent existing

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