Dictionary entry

Great britain

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Myanmar Meaning

(n) အင်္ဂလန်၊ဝေလနယ်နှင့်စကော့တလန်။

Definition

great / greÇt / adj ( -er, est ) ၁။ (က) ႀကီးမားေသာ။ အလြန္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ေသာ။ နက္႐ိႈင္းေသာ။ မ်ားျပားေသာ။ အလြန္ေဝးကြာေသာ။ The great ship sank below the waves. ❍ The area of forest that has been destroyed is very great. ❍ dive to a great depth ❍ A great crowd had gathered. ❍ People were arriving in great numbers. ❍ He lives a great distance away. ❍ She lived to a great age. ❍ The great majority (of people) (ie Most people) approve. ❍ The greater part (ie Most) of the area is flooded. (ခ) ႀကီးမားေသာ။ လြန္ကဲေသာ။ ထူးကဲေသာ။ of great value/ importance/ relevance/ significance ❍ He described it in great detail. ❍ be in great demand (ie much wanted) ❍ Take great care of it. ❍ It's a great relief to know you're safe. ❍ You've been a great help. ❍ This is a great opportunity for you. ❍ BIG ၂။ (က) ထူးခြၽန္ေသာ။ ထူးကဲေသာ။ ေျပာင္ေျမာက္ေသာ။ a great man/ artist/ musician ❍ perform great deeds ❍ the world's greatest violinist ❍ No one would deny that Beethoven's symphonies are great masterpieces. (ခ) ဂုဏ္ျမင့္ေသာ။ ႀကီးျမတ္ေသာ။ အင္အားႀကီးမားေသာ။ a great lady ❍ the great powers (ie important and powerful countries) ❍ Alexander the Great. ၃။ (က) အေရးႀကီးေသာ။ ခမ္းနား ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ The governor was getting married, and everyone was in town for the great occasion. ❍ As the great day approached, she grew more and more nervous. (ခ) အေရးႀကီးေသာ။ ထူးကဲေသာ။ great developments in the prevention of disease ❍ A/ The great advantage of this metal is that it doesn't rust. ၄။ (ကိုယ္၊ စိတ္) က်န္းမာႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ အားအင္ ျပည့္ဝေသာ။ in great form/ shape (ie very fit and active) ❍ in great spirits (ie very cheerful) ❍ I feel great today! ၅။ (က) ( infml ) အလြန္ေကာင္းေသာ။ အလြန္ေတာ္ေသာ။ အလြန္ဝမ္းေျမာက္ရေသာ။ အလြန္ေပ်ာ္ရေသာ။ Isn't he great? ❍ She's the greatest! ❍ It's great that you can come! ❍ What a great party! ❍ He scored a great goal. ❍ We had a great time in Majorca. ❍ It's great to have met you! (ခ) ( ironic ) (သေရာ္ေသာ၊ ေငါ့ေသာအားျဖင့္) ေကာင္းပါေပ့၊ သိပ္ေကာင္းကြာ။ Oh great, I've missed the bus again! ❍ You've been a great help, you have! (ဂ) ~ for (doing) sth ( infml ) အလြန္သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာ။ အလြန္ အသံုးဝင္ေသာ။ This little gadget's great for opening jars. ❍ These are great shoes for muddy weather. (ဃ) ~ at (doing) sth ( infml ) ကြၽမ္း[ေသာ]။ ေတာ္[ေသာ]။ She's great at tennis/ chess. ၆။ အလြန္… ေသာ။ အင္မတန္…ေသာ။ We are great friends. ❍ I've never been a great reader (ie I do not read much). ❍ He's a great one for complaining (ie He constantly complains). ၇။ ( infml ) ဧရာမ။ She has four great big sons. ❍ He cut himself a great thick slice of cake. ၈။ (ေဆြမ်ဳိး အစဥ္အဆက္ျပ 'grand' ေရွ႕တြင္ တစ္ဆက္ပို၍ ေရွးျခင္း၊ ေႏွာင္းျခင္း ျပေသာ စကား)။ one's great grandfather (ie one's father's or mother's grandfather) ❍ one's great grandson (ie the GRANDSON of one's son or daughter). ၉။ ( dated infml ) (အံ့ဩျခင္းျပ အာေမၮိတ္ စကား)။ Great heavens! ၁၀။ Greater (Brit) မဟာ။ Greater Manchester ❍ Greater London. n ၁။ [C usu pl ] ( infml ) ထူးခြၽန္ေသာပုဂၢိဳလ္။ one of boxing's all-time greats. ၂။ the great [pl v ] လူကံုထံ ေၾကးရတတ္။ a fashionable affair attended by the great and the good. ❏ be no great shakes [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေကာင္းစားထဲက မဟုတ္။ She's no great shakes as an actress. ❍ The film was no great shakes. ❏ going great guns [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခရီးတြင္လ်က္ ရိွသည္။ Work is going great guns now. ❏ great and small [ IDM ] ဆင္းရဲခ်မ္းသာမေရြး။ မ်က္ႏွာ ႀကီးငယ္မေရြး။ Everyone, great and small, is affected by these changes. ❏ Great Britain ( abbr GB ) (also Britain ) n အဂၤလန္၊ ေဝလနယ္ႏွင့္ စေကာ့တလန္။ ❏ Great Dane n ေမြးတို ေခြးအႀကီးစားမ်ဳိး။ ❏ the great sth in the sky [ IDM ] ( joc ) တမလြန္ ဘဝ။ He's gone to the great ballroom in the sky. ❍ The car is heading for the great big garage in the sky. ❏ greatly adv အလြန္။ We were greatly amused. ❍ The reports were greatly exaggerated. ❍ He has suffered greatly. ❏ greatness n [U] နာမည္၊ ဂုဏ္သတင္း စသည္ ႀကီးျခင္း။ achieve greatness in one's lifetime. ❏ the Great War n [sing] ( dated ) ၁၉၁၄- ၁၉၁၈ တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားေသာ ပထမကမ႓ာစစ္ႀကီး။

Examples

  1. She had great difficulty in guessing where I was from.
  2. They could be in great danger.
  3. He was in a great hurry.
  4. It gives me great pleasure to welcome our next guest.
  5. This is a great opportunity to raise a lot of money.
  6. They dug this whacking great hole.
  7. [great big] : A great big piece of chocolate
  8. Shakespeare wrote a great many plays.
  9. The great majority disagree.
  10. The great river
  11. A great feast
  12. The castle’s great hall
  13. The Great Barrier Reef
  14. The great white shark
  15. A great military power
  16. The greatest environmental disaster in decades
  17. A great healthcare crisis
  18. The Great Depression of the 1930s
  19. The Great Fire of London of 1666
  20. One of the greatest writers of the modern age
  21. A great work of art
  22. The really great thing about this computer is its speed.
  23. The great advantage is that this place is so near to town.
  24. I’m your greatest admirer.
  25. A great football fan
  26. [a great talker/walker/reader etc] : She’s a great reader of biographies.
  27. [be a great one for] : I’ve never been a great one for spiders and snakes.
  28. He’s a great guitarist.
  29. [great at] : She’s great at maths.
  30. Isn’t she great with the children?
  31. It’s great to be here.
  32. I think it’s great he’s got a girlfriend.
  33. Great! I’ll pick you up at eight
  34. then.
  35. This cake tastes great.
  36. We had a great day.
  37. You looked great in that outfit.
  38. This is a great place for families.
  39. That’s just great! Now I’ll have do it all over again.
  40. He’s a great guy.
  41. A great friend