🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

프레임

Pronunciation / Transliteration: peureim

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Frame/freɪm/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #650 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그녀는 아름다운 프레임에 그림을 걸었습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A rigid structure that surrounds or encloses something such as a picture or a window.

    "She hung the painting in a beautiful wooden frame."
As verb
  1. 1

    To construct or put together a structure.

    "They plan to frame the new house this summer."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'framian' meaning to avail, profit, or be serviceable, ultimately from Proto-Germanic '*framjaną' (to promote, further). Over centuries, the meaning shifted from structural support and boundaries to constructing narratives, framing images, and falsely implicating someone.

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