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| | ostentation | (ออสเทนเท'เชิน) n. การโอ้อวด, การเอาหน้า, การแสดงออก, Syn. showiness |
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| | ปิดทองหลังพระ | (v) do a thankless job, See also: do good without ostentation, Example: เขาจะไม่ได้อะไรเลยถ้ายังปิดทองหลังพระอยู่อย่างนี้, Thai Definition: ทำความดีแต่ไม่ได้รับการยกย่อง เพราะไม่มีใครเห็นคุณค่า, Notes: (สำนวน) | | การอุปถัมภ์ | (n) patronage, See also: help, support, aid, assistance, sustentation, Syn. การช่วยเหลือ, การเกื้อกูล, การค้ำจุน, การอนุเคราะห์, Example: เธอให้การอุปถัมภ์เด็กทารกที่บ้านเด็กกำพร้าอยู่ |
| | การอุปถัมภ์ | [kān uppatham] (n) EN: patronage ; help ; support ; aid ; assistance ; sustentation FR: patronage [ m ] ; parrainage [ m ] |
| | | | ostentation | (n) a gaudy outward display, Syn. fanfare, flash | | ostentation | (n) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity, Syn. splashiness, pomposity, puffiness, pretentiousness, pompousness, ostentatiousness, inflation | | ostentation | (n) pretentious or showy or vulgar display | | sustenance | (n) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence, Syn. maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
| | Contentation | n. [ LL. contentatio. ] Content; satisfaction. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Discontentation | n. Discontent. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Incontentation | n. [ See In- not, and Content. ] Discontent. [ Obs. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Intentation | n. Intention. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Ostentation | n. [ L. ostentatio: cf. F. ostentation. ] 1. The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. “Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A show or spectacle. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Syn. -- Parade; pageantry; show; pomp; pompousness; vaunting; boasting. See Parade. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Sustentation | n. [ L. sustentatio sustenance, maintenance, fr. sustentare to support, maintain, v. intens. fr. sustinere to sustain: cf. F. sustentation. See Sustain. ] 1. The act of sustaining, or the state of being sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Physiol.) The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth. [ 1913 Webster ]
Sustentation fund (Eccl.), a fund of a religious body for support of its ministers, chapels, etc.; as, the sustentation fund of the Free Church of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]
| | Tentation | n. [ L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation. ] 1. Trial; temptation. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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