Virtue

Definition

virtue /'vɜ:tʃu:/ n ၁။ (က) [U] သူေတာ္ေကာင္းတရား။ စင္ၾကယ္ေသာအက်င့္သီလ။ သုစ႐ိုက္။ lead a life of virtue ❍ No one would describe him as a paragon of virtue. (ခ) [C] အက်င့္ေကာင္း။ အေလ့အထေကာင္း။ extol / praise the virtue of hard work ❍ ( saying ) Patience is a virtue. Compare VICE 1 ၁ ၂။ [C,U] ေကာင္းကြက္။ အားသာခ်က္။ The plan has the great virtue of being flexible/of flexibility. ❍ He was extolling the virtues of private education. ❍ The director has made a virtue of the film's limited budget. ❏ by virtue of sth [ IDM ] အရင္းခံ၍။ အေၾကာင္းျပဳ၍။ ျခင္းေၾကာင့္။ They are paid more by virtue of their seniority. ❍ She got the job by virtue of being the only one to apply. ❏ make a virtue of necessity [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းမထူး ေတာ့သည့္ အတူတူ ပကတိအေျခအေနကို လက္ခံလိုက္သည္။ Being short of money, I made a virtue of necessity and gave up smoking. ❏ virtuous /'vɜ:tʃuǝs/ adj ၁။ မြန္ျမတ္ေသာ။ ေကာင္းျမတ္ ေသာ။ virtuous behaviour ❍ a virtuous person. ၂။ ( derog or joc ) အဟုတ္ႀကီး [ထင္ေသာ]။ He's feeling all virtuous because he's washed the car! virtuously adv

Examples

1. Patience is not one of my virtues.
2. Teaching children the virtues of discipline and self-control
3. Obedience is an important military virtue.
4. [virtue of] : One virtue of the plan is that it is cheaper to implement.
5. [preach/proclaim/extol the virtues of] : She goes on lecture tours to preach the virtues of free-market capitalism.