Dictionary entry
Tragedy
Pronunciation: /ˈtradʒɪdi/
Pronunciation
/ˈtradʒɪdi/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) ကံဆိုးမိုးမှောင်ကျခြင်း
Definition
tragedy /'trædʒǝdi/ n ၁။ [C, U] ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္က်ျခင္း။ အျဖစ္ဆိုး။ Investigators are searching the wreckage of the plane to try to find the cause of the tragedy. ❍ The whole affair ended in tragedy. ❍ It's a tragedy (ie extremely unfortunate) for this country that such a great musician died so young. ၂။ (က) [C] အလြမ္းဇာတ္။ အေဆြးဇာတ္။ Shakespeare's tragedies and comedies. (ခ) [U] …အလြမ္းဇာတ္သဘင္။ Greek tragedy. Compare COMEDY၁ ❏ tragedian /trǝ'dʒi:diǝn/ n ၁။ အလြမ္းျပဇာတ္ေရးဆရာ။ ၂။ အလြမ္းမင္းသား။ ❏ tragedienne /trǝdʒi:di'en/ n အလြမ္းမင္းသမီး။
Examples
- The trip ended in tragedy.
- [prevent/avert a tragedy] : The measures were designed to prevent any similar tragedies.
- It’s a tragedy that so many young people are out of work.
- Shakespeare’s tragedies
- We are studying Greek tragedy.