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Definition
Noun:
- East: One of the four cardinal directions, the direction where the sun rises.
- Winter: The coldest season of the year.
Adjective:
- Crowded; Numerous: Having a large number of people or things gathered in one place.
- Superior (archaic/poetic): Used in classical contexts to mean greater or more important.
Verb:
- To Congeal; To Coagulate; To Freeze: To change from a liquid or fluid state to a solid or semi-solid state.
Usage Examples
- Noun (East):
- Mặt trời mọc ở hướng đông. (The sun rises in the east.)
- Noun (Winter):
- Trời đông thường rất lạnh ở miền Bắc. (Winter is usually very cold in the North.)
- Adjective (Crowded):
- Chợ rất đông người vào buổi sáng. (The market is very crowded in the morning.)
- Verb (To Congeal):
- Nước đông lại thành đá trong tủ lạnh. (The water froze into ice in the refrigerator.)
Advanced Usage
- "Đông phương": The Orient; Eastern countries or cultures.
- Triết học Đông phương rất sâu sắc. (Eastern philosophy is very profound.)
- "Đông đúc": Bustling; densely populated and lively.
- Đường phố đông đúc xe cộ. (The streets are bustling with traffic.)
Variants and Related Words
- Phương đông (n): The East; the eastern direction.
- Cửa sổ hướng về phương đông. (The window faces the east.)
- Mùa đông (n): The winter season.
- Mùa đông năm nay đến sớm. (Winter came early this year.)
- Đông cứng (v): To freeze solid.
- Hồ nước đã đông cứng. (The lake has frozen solid.)
- Đông máu (v): For blood to clot.
- Vết thương cần đông máu để ngừng chảy. (The wound needs the blood to clot to stop bleeding.)
Synonyms
- East: orient, eastward.
- Winter: the cold season.
- Crowded: packed, full, swarming.
- To Congeal: to solidify, to clot, to jell.
Related Idioms
- Đông như kiến: As crowded as ants; teeming with people.
- Lễ hội đông như kiến. (The festival was teeming with people.)
- Đông tay hơn hay làm: Many hands make light work. (Literal: More hands are better at working.)
- Cùng làm cho nhanh, đông tay hơn hay làm mà. (Let's work together to finish faster, many hands make light work.)
- Rạng đông: Dawn; daybreak.
- Chúng tôi lên đường từ lúc rạng đông. (We set off at dawn.)
adj
- Crowed; numerous; superior
verb
- To congeal; to coagulate; to freeze