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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -avarice-, *avarice*
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English-Thai: NECTEC's Lexitron-2 Dictionary [with local updates]
avarice(n) ความโลภ, See also: ความเห็นแก่ได้, ความละโมบ, Syn. cupidity

อังกฤษ-ไทย: คลังศัพท์ไทย โดย สวทช.
Avariceความโลภ [TU Subject Heading]

ตัวอย่างประโยคจาก Tanaka JP-EN Corpus
avariceYoung men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.

CMU English Pronouncing Dictionary Dictionary [with local updates]
avarice

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary (pronunciation guide only)
avarice

WordNet (3.0)
avarice(n) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins), Syn. covetousness, avaritia, rapacity, greed
avarice(n) extreme greed for material wealth, Syn. covetousness, avariciousness, cupidity

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Avarice

n. [ F. avaritia, fr. avarus avaricious, prob. fr. avēre to covet, fr. a root av to satiate one's self: cf. Gr. 'a`menai, 'a^sai, to satiate, Skr. av to satiate one's self, rejoice, protect. ] 1. An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for wealth; covetousness; cupidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inordinate desire for some supposed good. [ 1913 Webster ]

All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

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