Definition

1. Verb:
   • To eulogize and pass down: To praise and recount the virtues, merits, or exploits of a person or event, causing the story to be transmitted from person to person and across generations.
   • To be celebrated in lore: To be the subject of stories that are widely told and admired over time.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Truyền tụng công đức của các vị anh hùng dân tộc. (To eulogize and pass down the merits of national heroes.)
  • Câu chuyện về lòng dũng cảm của ông ấy được mọi người truyền tụng. (The story of his bravery is celebrated and passed down by everyone.)
  • Tác phẩm đó đã được truyền tụng qua nhiều thế kỷ. (That literary work has been eulogized and transmitted through many centuries.)

Advanced Usage

• The word carries a formal and literary tone, often used for historical, heroic, or morally exemplary figures and deeds. It implies a communal act of preserving and honoring memory through oral or written tradition.

Variants and Related Words

• Truyền miệng (v): to pass on by word of mouth.

  • Giai thoại được truyền miệng trong dân gian. (The anecdote is passed on by word of mouth among the people.)

• Ca tụng (v): to praise, to extol.

  • Ca tụng những hy sinh thầm lặng. (To praise silent sacrifices.)

Synonyms

• To extol: To praise highly.
• To celebrate: To honor with festivities or in story.
• To commemorate: To keep in memory by ceremony or observation.

Related Idioms

• Lưu truyền hậu thế: to be handed down to posterity.

  • Tấm gương hiếu học của ông được lưu truyền hậu thế. (His model of studiousness is handed down to posterity.)

• Được đời đời nhớ ơn: to be remembered and grateful for eternally.

  • Công lao của vị ấy được nhân dân đời đời nhớ ơn. (His contributions are remembered gratefully by the people for eternity.)