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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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mainly

/ˈmeɪnli/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈmeɪnli/
mainly
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

main - ly -> mainly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) အများအားဖြင့်

Full entry

main /meÇn / adj

အခရာ။ အဓိက။ ပင်မ။
the main thing to remember ❍ the main street of a town ❍ Be careful crossing that main road. ❍ the main meal of the day ❍ the main course (of a meal) ❍ My main concern is the welfare of the children.
n
၁။ [C] (က) ပင်မရေပိုက်၊ ဓာတ်ငွေ့ပိုက်။ မိန်းပိုက်။ ပင်မ လျှပ်စစ်ကြိုး။ မိန်းကြိုး။
a burst water main ❍ The gas main exploded and set fire to the house.
(ခ) ပင်မမိလ္လာပိုက်၊ ရေဆိုးပိုက်။
၂။ the mains [sing or pl v ] ရေ၊ ဓာတ်ငွေ့၊ လျှပ်စစ် စတင်ဖြန့်ဖြူးသည့် နေရာ။
We are/The house is not yet connected to the mains. ❍ The electricity supply has been cut off / disconnected at the mains. ❍ mains gas/ water / electricity supply (ie supplied from the mains) ❍ mains drainage ❍ a mains / battery shaver (ie one which can be operated either from a mains electricity supply or by batteries).
❏ in the main [ IDM ] အများအားဖြင့်။ ခြုံ၍ ကြည့်လျှင်။
Tourists come from Europe, in the main. ❍ The service here is in the main reliable.
❏ main clause n (grammar ) အမှီခံဝါကျကဏ္ဍ။
❏ main drag n [sing] (infml esp US ) အဓိကကျသော မြို့တွင်းလမ်း။ မင်းလမ်းမ။
❏ main line n ဒေသနှစ်ခုကို ဆက်သွယ် ထားသည့် အဓိက ရထားလမ်း။
the main line from London to Coventry ❍ a main-line station.
❏ mainly adv အများအားဖြင့်။ အဓိကအားဖြင့်။ You are mainly to blame. ❍ The people in the hotel were mainly foreign tourists.

More examples
  • The main entrance to the building is on George Street.
  • We eat our main meal of the day in the evening.
  • The main London to Edinburgh railway line
  • The main focus of her speech was on the new sales strategy.
Synonyms
major, chief, key, most important, foremost, core, focal, central, highest, absolute, brute, cable, capital, cardinal, channel, conduit, controlling, critical, crucial, direct, downright, duct, entire, essential, fundamental, head, leading, line, mere, necessary, only, outstanding, paramount, particular, predominant, preeminent, premier, prevailing, primary, prime, principal, pure, sheer, simple, special, star, stellar, supreme, trough, trunk, undisguised, utmost, utter, vital
Antonyms
arm, auxiliary, bellyful, biceps, common, ell, extra, firth, flapper, flipper, inessential, inferior, insignificant, minor, nonessential, ordinary, overfullness, overkill, overplus, secondary, subordinate, surfeit, triceps, trivial, unimportant, unnecessary, up to here, upper arm, usual
Cross references
majorchiefkeymost importantforemostcorefocalcentralhighestabsolutebrutecablecapitalcardinalchannelconduitcontrollingcriticalcrucialdirectdownrightductentireessentialfundamentalheadleadingline
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