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Originality
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Definition
original /ǝ'rÇdʒǝnl/ adj ၁။ မူလ။ မူရင္း။ ပင္ရင္း။ Most of the original inhabitants have left for the mainland. ❍ I prefer your original plan to this one. ၂။ ( usu approv ) (က) ပင္ကို။ ပင္ထြက္။ an original idea ❍ His designs are highly original. (ခ) ပင္ကိုဉာဏ္ရိွေသာ။ တီထြင္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ an original thinker/ writer/ painter ❍ have an original mind. ၃။ မူရင္း။ an original Constable ❍ The original manuscript has been lost; this is a copy. n ၁။ the original [C] မူရင္း။ This painting is a copy; the original is in Madrid. ❍ Send out the photocopies and keep the original. ၂။ the original [sing] မူရင္း။ read Homer in the original (ie in ancient Greek). ၃။ [C esp sing ] ( infml esp joc ) တစ္ဘာသာ။ လူထူး။ ❏ originality /ǝrÇdʒǝ'nælǝti/ n [U] တီထြင္ႏိုင္မႈ။ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဟန္။ have/ lack/ show originality. ❏ originally /-nǝli/ adv ၁။ အစတုန္းက။ မူလက။ နဂိုက။ The school was originally quite small. ❍ Originally, we were going to Italy, but then we booked a holiday in Greece. ၂။ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဟန္ျဖင့္။ speak/ think/ write originally. ❏ original sin n [U]( religion ) ပညတ္ေတာ္မ်ားကို ဆန္႔က်င္ လိုသည့္ ဗီဇသည္ လူတိုင္း၌ပါရိွသည္ဟူေသာ အယူ။
Examples
- Do you know who the car’s original owner was?
- Our original plan was to go to Spain
- but it was too expensive.
- The house still has its original wood panelling and doors.
- An original and thought-provoking drama
- A highly original design
- I have to buy a wedding present and I want to find something really original.
- A very original songwriter
- The original painting is in a museum in Vienna.