pair

/pɛː/

US pronunciation

American sound/pɛː/

pair

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Long vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

US voice -> pair

Myanmar meaning

(n) တဈရနျ။ တဈစုံ။ နှဈဖကျ၊နှဈပိုငျးပေါငျးစပျထားသောအရာတဈခု။ စုံတှဲ။ အကွောငျးတဈရပျရပျနှင့ျပတျသကျနသေူနှဈယောကျ။ တိရစ်ဆာနျဖိုမတဈစုံ၊တဈတှဲ၊မောငျနံှ။ ရထားတှငျယှဉျကသောမွငျးနှဈကောငျ။ တှဲသညျ။ တိရစ်ဆာနျမြားဖိုမမောငျနံှတှဲဖကျမိသညျ။

Full entry

pair /peǝ(r)/ n

၁။ [C] တစ်ရန်။ တစ်စုံ။ a pair of gloves/ shoes/ socks/ earrings ❍ a huge pair of eyes.
၂။ [C] (နှစ်ဖက်၊ နှစ်ပိုင်း ပေါင်းစပ်ထားသောအရာ) တစ်ခု။ a pair of binoculars/ tights/ scissors/ under pants ❍ I've broken my glasses—I'll have to buy a new pair.
၃။ [pl v ] စုံတွဲ။ (အကြောင်းတစ်ရပ်ရပ်နှင့် ပတ်သက်နေသူ) နှစ်ယောက်။ the happy pair (ie the newly married couple) ❍ (infml ) You've behaved very badly, the pair of you!
၄။ [CGp] (တိရစ္ဆာန် ဖိုမ) တစ်စုံ၊ တစ်တွဲ၊ မောင်နှံ။ a pair of swans nesting by the river.
၅။ [C] ရထားတွင် ယှဉ်ကသော မြင်း နှစ်ကောင်။ a coach and pair. See also AU PAIR
v
၁။ ~ A with B; ~ A and B (together) တွဲသည်။ be paired with sb in a doubles match.
၂။ (တိရစ္ဆာန်များ) ဖိုမ မောင်နှံ တွဲဖက်မိသည်။
❏ in pairs [IDM ] စုံလိုက်။ These earrings are only sold in pairs.
❏ pair (sb/ sth) off (with sb) [PHRV ] ဒွယံဒွယံ ချိတ်မိသည်၊ တွဲသည်။ The students had all paired off by the end of term. ❍ She's always trying to pair her friends off with each other.
❏ pair up (with sb) [PHRV ] (အလုပ်လုပ်ရန်၊ ကစားရန် စသည်) နှစ်ယောက်တစ်တွဲ တွဲသည်။

More examples

Those boots cost fifty pounds a pair.
[pair of] : I need a pair of earrings to go with this outfit.
A pair of beautiful blue eyes
A pair of shoes/socks/gloves
[the pair for/to something] : I can’t find the pair for this sock.
My glasses are getting old and I probably need a new pair.
[pair of] : A pair of scissors/binoculars/pliers
A pair of trousers/pants/tights
The pair became good friends.
[pair of] : Several pairs of identical twins
A pair of lovers
[pair of] : Two pairs of guards stood just inside the main entrance to the museum.
[pair of] : A pair of sparrows had made a nest in the hedge.
A breeding pair of tropical fish
A carriage and pair

Synonyms

couple, duo, two of a kind, twosome, brace, balance, bracket, combination, combine, combo, deuce, doublet, duality, dyad, join, join up, make, marry, match, match up, mate, mates, pair off, pair up, put together, set, span, team, team up, twin, twins, two, unite, wed, yoke

Antonyms

disconnect, disjoin, divide, one, separate, sever, single

Cross references

couple duo two of a kind twosome brace balance bracket combination combine combo deuce doublet duality dyad join join up make marry match match up mate mates pair off pair up put together set span team