hồng thủy

Thân thiện

Một cơn hồng thủy lớn bao phủ cả vùng đất.

Definition

1. Proper Noun:
   • The Deluge, the Great Flood: A cataclysmic, world-covering flood sent by divine power as a judgment, most famously the one described in the Biblical book of Genesis and found in the mythologies of many cultures.

Usage Examples

• Proper Noun:
  • Truyền thuyết kể về trận hồng thủy nhấn chìm cả thế giới. (The legend tells of the Great Flood that submerged the entire world.)
  • Câu chuyện Noah và chiếc tàu của ông là một câu chuyện về hồng thủy. (The story of Noah and his ark is a story about the Deluge.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is often used metaphorically to describe an overwhelming, destructive force or a very large quantity.
  • Cô ấy khóc như hồng thủy. (She cried a flood of tears. / Literally: She cried like the Great Flood.)

Variants and Related Words

• Lũ lụt (n): Flood; a general term for flooding as a natural disaster, not necessarily mythical or world-ending.
  • Lũ lụt đã gây thiệt hại nghiêm trọng cho thành phố. (The flood caused serious damage to the city.)
• Đại hồng thủy (n): The Great Deluge; an emphatic variant with the same meaning as "hồng thủy."

Synonyms

• The Deluge
• The Great Flood
• The Biblical Flood

Related Idioms

• Hồng thủy is itself a culturally embedded term and is used in fixed expressions like "trận hồng thủy" (the cataclysm of the Flood) or metaphorically as shown in Advanced Usage.

Học thuật

1. The Deluge, the Flood