| windfall | (วินดฺ'ฟอล) n. สิ่งที่ลมพัดตกลงมา, กำไรที่คาดคิดไม่ถึง, โชคที่ลอยมาอย่างคาดคิดไม่ถึง, Syn. luck, fluke |
| | | ลาภลอย | (n) windfall, See also: unexpected luck, godsend, Thai Definition: สิ่งที่ได้มาโดยไม่คิดฝัน | ลาภผล | (n) windfall, See also: unexpected fortune, Example: เขาทำบุญมาด้วยอะไรนะถึงได้รับลาภผลมากมายขนาดนี้, Thai Definition: ของที่ได้หรือการได้มาโดยไม่ได้คาดคิด | อดิเรกลาภ | (n) windfall, See also: unexpected gain, extra gain, extraordinary good fortune, Syn. อติเรกลาภ, ลาภพิเศษ, โชค, ลาภลอย, Example: เขาได้อดิเรกลาภโดยบังเอิญ |
| อดิเรกลาภ | [adirēklāp] (n) EN: windfall | ลาภ | [lāp] (n) EN: fortune ; luck ; stroke of good fortune ; windfall FR: chance [ f ] ; aubaine [ f ] ; coup de chance [ m ] | ส้มหล่น | [som lon] (n, exp) EN: windfall |
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Windfall \Wind"fall`\, n.
1. Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a
tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest
prostrated by a violent wind, etc. "They became a windfall
upon the sudden." --Bacon.
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2. An unexpected legacy, or other gain.
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He had a mighty windfall out of doubt. --B. Jonson.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
windfall
n 1: fruit that has fallen from the tree
2: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden
opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has
created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes
of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn:
{boom}, {bonanza}, {gold rush}, {gravy}, {godsend}, {manna
from heaven}, {windfall}, {bunce}]
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