Definition

1. Noun:

   • Ceiling: The overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.
   • The mortal world; earthly life: A poetic or literary term referring to the human world, as opposed to the spiritual or heavenly realms.

2. Adjective:

   • Bare; naked: Used to describe a part of the body, typically the torso, that is uncovered or without clothing.
   • Exposed; uncovered: Describing something that is not concealed, shielded, or decorated.
   • Plain; unadorned: In a natural, simple state without any additions or embellishments.

3. Adverb (colloquial):

   • Merely; only; nothing but: Used to emphasize that there is nothing more than what is mentioned.

Usage Examples

• Noun:

  • Đèn được gắn trên trần nhà. (The light is fixed on the ceiling.)
  • Anh ấy đã rời bỏ cõi trần. (He left this mortal world.)

• Adjective:

  • Cậu bé mặc quần đùi, trần mình tắm mưa. (The boy, wearing shorts and bare-chested, bathed in the rain.)
  • Hắn cầm thanh kiếm trần. (He held a naked sword.)
  • Món cá được hấp trần. (The fish is steamed plain.)

• Adverb:

  • Trong túi nó trần có năm đồng. (In his pocket, there is only five dong.)

Advanced Usage

• "trần trụi": Completely naked or starkly bare, often used literally or metaphorically.

  • Sự thật được phơi bày một cách trần trụi. (The truth was revealed in a starkly bare manner.)

• "bày trần": To lay out or expose something openly.

  • Kẻ địch đã bày trần kế hoạch của chúng. (The enemy laid out their plan openly.)

Variants and Related Words

• Đầu trần (adj): Bare-headed.

  • Không đội mũ, anh ấy đầu trần đi dưới nắng. (Not wearing a hat, he walked under the sun bare-headed.)

• Mắt trần (n): The naked eye.

  • Vì sao đó có thể nhìn thấy bằng mắt trần. (That star can be seen with the naked eye.)

Synonyms

• Ceiling: overhead, roof (interior).
• Bare: nude, exposed, uncovered.
• Plain: simple, unadorned, natural.
• Only: merely, just, solely.

Related Idioms

• Trần như nhộng: As naked as a worm; meaning completely naked or destitute.

  • Sau trận lũ, nhiều người sống trần như nhộng. (After the flood, many people lived destitute.)

• Cõi trần: The mortal realm; the earthly world.

  • Những lo toan của cõi trần. (The worries of the earthly world.)

noun

1. ceiling

adj

1. bare, naked plain