Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Immense; vast and open: Describes a space, particularly the sky or a landscape, that is extremely high, wide, and unobstructed, creating a feeling of great spaciousness.
   • Blowing strongly and freely: Describes wind blowing with great force and through an open, unblocked area.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bầu trời lồng lộng. (The sky is immense/vast.)
  • Gió thổi lồng lộng trên cánh đồng. (The wind blows strongly and freely across the field.)
  • Căn phòng không đồ đạc trông lồng lộng. (The room without furniture looks vast and open.)

Advanced Usage

• "cao lồng lộng": very high; toweringly high.
  • Ngọn núi cao lồng lộng. (The mountain is toweringly high.)

Variants and Related Words

• Thoáng đãng (adj): airy, spacious, open. This is a close synonym but often lacks the poetic and immense scale of "lồng lộng".
• Mênh mông (adj): boundless, vast (often for sea or sky). Emphasizes boundless horizontal expanse, while "lồng lộng" emphasizes open height and volume.

Synonyms

• Vast: of very great extent or size.
• Immense: extremely large or great.
• Unobstructed: not blocked or hindered.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Lồng lộng trời cao: The vast, high sky. A poetic phrase often used to evoke a sense of great, open space and freedom.
  • Cảm giác lồng lộng trời cao khi đứng trên đỉnh núi. (The feeling of the vast, high sky when standing on the mountain peak.)

adj

1. high and large; immense
   • cao lồng lộng
     very high