HinKhoj Dictionary

English Hindi Dictionary | अंग्रेज़ी हिन्दी शब्दकोश

English words taken from French


gauche: Awkward (फूहड़/ भद्दा)
genre: Type (प्रकार -Used mostly in art and film)
haute couture: High cuisine; High-class, fancy (and expensive) cooking or food (उच्च व्यंजन)
joie de vivre: Joy of living; The quality in people who live life to the fullest (जीवन का आनन्द)
matinee: A performance in a theater or a showing of a movie that takes place in the daytime.
(दोपहर का खेल)

Read More

Types of Phobia


Taphephobia - fear of being buried alive
Technophobia - fear of technology
Thalassophobia - fear of the sea
Thanatophobia - fear of death
Theophobia - fear of God
Tocophobia - fear of pregnancy or childbirth

Read More

Hangar and Hanger


Hangar and Hanger

Hangar - any relatively wide structure used for housing airplanes or airships (विमानशाला)
Usage example: The hangar was large enough to house at least six planes.

Hanger - a contrivance on which things are hung, as a hook (लटकनेवाला/ टांगनेवाला)
Usage example: She neatly arranged her dresses on the hanger.

Read More

Quote of the week


जीतना और हारना आपके ऊपर निर्भर है. मान लिया तो हार गए और ठान लिया तो समझो जीत गए।
Win and to lose depends on you, If you agree, you lose and If you are determined then you win.

Read More

Idioms with 'Black'


Black and white
To judge everything as either one way or the other, good or bad.
Black and blue
Used to describe something that is badly bruised
Blackball someone
To exclude or ostracise someone socially, reject them
In someone’s black books
To be in disgrace or in disfavour with someone
In the black
Meaning successful or profitable

Read More
Showing 1041 to 1045 of 3441 (689 Pages)

Advertisements