Dictionary entry

Shores

Pronunciation: /ʃɔː/

Pronunciation

/ʃɔː/

Myanmar Meaning

(n[pl]) ကမ်းခြေများ

Definition

shore 1 /ʃↄ:(r)/ n ၁။ [C,U] ကမ္းေျခ၊ ကမ္းစပ္။ a house on the shore(s) of Lake Geneva ❍ swim from the boat to the shore ❍ go on shore (eg of sailors from a ship). ❍ COAST ၂။ shores [pl] ( esp rhet ) (ပင္လယ္ရပ္ျခား) တိုင္းျပည္၊ ႏိုင္ငံ။ visit foreign shores. ❍ COAST shore 2 /ʃↄ:(r)/ v ❏ shore sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေဒါက္၊ က်ား၊ ဆင့္၊ တန္း စသည္ျဖင့္) ေထာက္၊ ကန္၊ ခံသည္။ shore up the side of an old house to stop it falling down. ၂။ သက္ေသ၊ အေထာက္အထား ျပသည္။ She used this evidence to shore up her argument.

Examples

  1. Three of the sailors managed to swim to the shore.
  2. We stayed in a hotel on the shores of Lake Maggiore.
  3. Her family first came to these shores over 200 years ago.
  4. They leave Australian shores on Sunday.