Dictionary entry

Friendless

Pronunciation: /ˈfrɛndləs/

Pronunciation

/ˈfrɛndləs/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) မိတ်ဆွေ သူငယ်ချင်းမရှိသော။

Definition

friend / frend / n ၁။ မိတ္ေဆြ။ သူငယ္ခ်င္း။ အေပါင္းအသင္း။ အေဖာ္။ သဟာယ။ He's a friend of mine/my friend. ❍ We are good/close/old friends. ❍ She was my best friend at school. ❍ He had few friends among his fellow-students. See also BOYFRIEND, FAIR-WEATHER FRIEND, GIRLFRIEND See also BEFRIEND ၂။ ~ of sth မိတ္ေဆြ။ ဘက္ေတာ္သား။ a friend of the arts/ the poor ❍ We appeal to all friends of peace and justice around the world. ၃။ မိတ္ေဆြ။ Who goes there—friend or foe? ❍ You're among friends here—you can speak freely. ၄။ မိတ္ေဆြ။ အေဖာ္။ I've come to rely on my dictionary like an old friend. ❍ Television can be a valuable friend for lonely people. ၅။ Friend = QUAKER ၆။ မိတ္ေဆြ။ Our friend from China will now tell us about her research. ❍ Friends, it is with great pleasure that I introduce our guest speaker. ❍ my learned friend (ie used by a lawyer of another lawyer in a lawcourt) ❍ my honourable friend (ie used by a Member of Parliament of another Member of the same party in the House of Commons). ❏ be/make friends (with sb) [ IDM ] မိတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ မိတ္ဖြဲ႕သည္။ They had a quarrel but now they're friends again. ❍ David finds it hard to make friends (with other children). ❏ a friend in need (is a friend in deed) [ IDM ] ( saying ) အေရးႀကံဳသည့္အခါ အားကိုးရမွမိတ္ေဆြစစ္။ ❏ friendless adj မိတ္ေဆြအေပါင္းအသင္း မရိွေသာ။ အထီးက်န္ အေဖာ္မဲ့ေသာ။

Examples

  1. She’s visiting friends in Scotland.
  2. [close/good/great friend] : Helga is a close friend of mine.
  3. [old friend] : I’m having lunch with an old friend.
  4. [friends and relatives/neighbours/acquaintances] : We stayed with various friends and relatives.
  5. [friend of the family/family friend] : May I introduce Peter Flint
  6. a very old friend of the family.
  7. [circle of friends] : She has a wide circle of friends.
  8. I’ll ask my friend at the office if she knows.
  9. The letter was signed simply ‘A friend’.
  10. They used to be good friends
  11. but they’ve fallen out recently.
  12. A lot of couples remain friends after their marriage ends.
  13. [friend with] : I’ve been friends with him for years.
  14. Japan is a valued friend and partner of this country.
  15. Annabel is a friend of the Metropolitan Museum.
  16. My friend
  17. Miss Edwards
  18. for the respondents
  19. has failed to address a number of issues.