loveliness
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Danh từ
nounPlural noun:
lovelinesses
- 1.
(uncountable)The property of being lovely, of attractiveness, beauty, appearing to be lovable.
- 2.
(countable)The result of being lovely.
- 3.
(collective, countable, uncountable)(zoology, collective) A group of ladybirds.
'A loveliness of ladybirds,' whispers Roisin to her sleeping child, and looks at her husband proudly. He grins back. 'Aye, the plague of last summer. Couldn't pick up a glass of lemonade without finding a hundred ladybirds using it as a bubble-bath.'
A loveliness of ladybugs is enjoying lunch - little aphids that pepper a crop of soybeans.
Sparks of sunlight caught on a loveliness of ladybirds that had floated into the waiting room through an open door.
Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English luflynes; equivalent to lovely + -ness.