dignity
US: /ˈdɪɡnəti/
UK: /dˈɪɡnɪti/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
dignity /'digniti/- danh từ
- chân giá trị
- the dignity of labour: chân giá trị của lao động
- phẩm giá, phẩm cách; lòng tự trọng
- human dignity: nhân phẩm
- beneath one's dignity: không xứng đáng với phẩm cách của mình
- to stand upon one's dignity: tự trọng, giữ phẩm giá của mình
- chức tước cao, chức vị cao
- thái độ chững chạc, thái độ đường hoàng; vẻ nghiêm trang
- chân giá trị
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun [U]1 a calm and serious manner that deserves respect: She accepted the criticism with quiet dignity.
2 the fact of being given honour and respect by people: the dignity of work + The terminally ill should be allowed to die with dignity.
3 a sense of your own importance and value: It's difficult to preserve your dignity when you have no job and no home.
Idioms: beneath your dignity below what you see as your own importance or worth
stand on your dignity (formal) to demand to be treated with the respect that you think that you deserve: Our teacher never stands on her dignity with us, but treats us all as friends and colleagues.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 nobility, majesty, gravity, gravitas, solemnity, courtliness, distinction, stateliness, formality, grandeur, eminence; hauteur, loftiness:
She entered and walked with dignity to the throne.
2 worth, worthiness, nobility, nobleness, excellence, honour, honourableness, respectability, respectableness, standing, importance, greatness, glory, station, status, rank, level, position:
The real dignity of a man lies not in what he has but in what he is.
3 self-respect, self-regard, amour propre, self-confidence, self-esteem, pride, self-importance:
It was beneath her dignity to speak directly to a footman.
Collocation
ADJ.
enormous, great | calm, quiet
She spoke to him with quiet dignity.
| human, personal
the importance of human dignity
VERB + DIGNITY
have, possess
These people have enormous dignity.
| keep, maintain, preserve, retain
We all want to maintain our dignity in old age.
| give sb
Being treated in the privacy of your own room gives you more dignity.
| lose
The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity.
| destroy, rob/strip sb of, threaten
Slavery destroys human dignity. Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity.
| muster
With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room.
| stand on
(= insist on the respect you think you deserve)She was never one to stand on her dignity.
PREP.
beneath your ~
He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity.
| with ~
the right to die with dignity
PHRASES
an air of dignity
His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power.
| lacking in dignity
We felt that the way she was treated was lacking in dignity.
| a lack of dignity, a loss of dignity
He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity.
| a sense of dignity
She had a strong sense of dignity.
| with your dignity intact
He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.
Concise dictionary
dignities'dɪgnɪtɪnoun
+the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
+formality in bearing and appearance
+high office or rank or station
