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1 folly
['foli]plural - follies; noun(foolishness: the follies of youth.) norost* * *[fɔli]nounnorost, neumnost, noro dejanje; fantastična, nekoristna stavba -
2 height
[hæit]1) (the distance from the bottom to the top of something: What is the height of this building?; He is 1.75 metres in height.) višina2) (the highest, greatest, strongest etc point: He is at the height of his career; The storm was at its height.) višek3) (the peak or extreme: dressed in the height of fashion; His actions were the height of folly.) vrh, višek4) (a high place: We looked down from the heights at the valley beneath us.) vrh•- heighten* * *[háit]nounvišina, višek, vrh, vrhunec; vzpetina; vzvišenostto draw o.s. up to one's full height — zravnati seprinting height to paper — standardna višina tiska -
3 stark
(bare, harsh or simple in a severe way: a stark, rocky landscape.) pust- stark naked* * *[sta:k]1.adjectivetog, negiben, trd, okoren; poetically krepak, močan; pust (o pokrajini); popolnoma gol; popoln, skrajen, absolutenit is stark nonsense — to je popoln nesmisel;2.adverbpopolnoma, čisto -
4 sublime
(of overwhelming greatness, grandeur, beauty etc.) veličasten- sublimity* * *I [səbláim]1.adjective ( sublimely adverb)vzvišen, dostojanstven, ki vzbuja spoštovanje s strahom; plemenit; veličasten, čudovit, grandiozen, majestetičen; nenavaden, najvišji, skrajen (drznost, neznanje); silovit; (često ironično) popoln, kompletensublime indifference — popolna, skrajna brezbrižnostsublime tempest — silovit vihar;2.nounthe sublime — kar je vzvišeno, vzvišenost; (redko) višek, vrhunecII [səbláim]transitive verb & intransitive verbchemistry sublimirati (se); figuratively idealizirati, oplemenititi (se); z oplemenitenjem spremeniti ( into v); biti očiščen, rafiniran, idealiziran -
5 supreme
[su'pri:m]1) (the highest, greatest, or most powerful: the supreme ruler.) vrhovni2) (the greatest possible: an act of supreme courage.) največji•- supremacy
- the Supreme Court* * *[sju:prí:m]1.adjective ( supremely adverb)najvišji, vrhovni, glavni, največji; zadnji, poslednji, smrtni; neomejen, skrajen; (o kakovosti) prvovrsten, odličen, dovršen, izvrsten; (čas) odločilen, kritičensupreme baseness — skrajna nizkotnost, podlostSupreme Being religion Bogthe supreme command military vrhovno poveljstvosupreme sacrifice — najvišja žrtev, žrtvovanje življenjato reign supreme — neomejeno vladati;2.nounkdor je najvišji; figuratively vrhunec, višek -
6 follies
plural; see folly
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