cao dày

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Definition

1. Noun (Literary, Figurative):
   • Heaven and earth; the cosmos; the universe: Refers to the natural world or the cosmos as a whole, often personified.
   • (Of grace, virtue, kindness) Immense, as vast as heaven and earth; boundless: Describes something of great magnitude, depth, or profoundness, typically used for abstract concepts like gratitude, merit, or virtue.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Công ơn cha mẹ cao dày như trời biển. (Parental grace is as immense as heaven and ocean.)
  • Lòng thành kính với bề trên cao dày. (The reverence for one's elders is profound.)
  • Ơn nghĩa cao dày khó mà đền đáp. (Such immense kindness is hard to repay.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, literary, or poetic contexts to convey deep respect or the vast scale of something abstract. It can personify heaven and earth as witnesses or judges.
  • Thề với cao dày. (To swear to heaven and earth.)

Variants and Related Words

• Trời cao đất dày: A more explicit synonym meaning "high heaven and thick earth," used similarly to refer to the cosmos or as a witness.
  • Có trời cao đất dày chứng giám. (May high heaven and thick earth bear witness.)

Synonyms

• Heaven and earth: The sky and the ground; the universe.
• The cosmos: The universe seen as a well-ordered whole.
• Immense: Extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.
• Boundless: Unlimited or immense.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Ơn cao nghĩa dày: An idiom meaning "high grace and thick meaning," used to describe deep, profound gratitude or indebtedness.
  • Mang ơn cao nghĩa dày của thầy. (To bear the profound debt of gratitude to one's teacher.)

Học thuật

1. Heaven and earth
2. nói về công ơn, công đức) Heaven-high and earth-thick, immense