🌟 종신 (終身)

Noun  

1. 목숨을 다하기까지의 동안.

1. BEING LIFELONG: The time until one's death.

🗣️ Usage Example:
  • 종신 고용.
    Tenure employment.
  • 종신 서약.
    A lifetime commitment.
  • 종신 유배.
    Exile for life.
  • 종신 재직.
    Tenure.
  • 종신 집권 제도는 왕들이 죽을 때까지 나라를 다스리는 제도를 뜻한다.
    A tenured regime means a system in which kings rule the country until they die.
  • 그 전문가는 임기를 종신으로 보장받겠다는 조건으로 우리 회사에 스카우트되었다.
    The expert was scouted by our company on condition that his term of office would be guaranteed to life.
  • 이 스포츠 업체와 종신 계약을 하셨다고요?
    You signed a life contract with this sports company?
    네. 평생 이 스포츠 용품을 협찬받는 대신에 홍보하기로 한 것이지요.
    Yes. instead of being sponsored for the rest of my life, i decided to promote it.

2. 부모가 돌아가실 때 그 곁에 있음.

2. ATTENDANCE AT ONE'S PARENT'S DEATHBED: The act of being with one's parent at his/her death.

🗣️ Usage Example:
  • 자식의 종신.
    The life of a child.
  • 종신을 하다.
    End to end.
  • 어머니께서 돌아가실 때 그 장남이 종신을 했다.
    The eldest son died when his mother died.
  • 민준이는 아버지 장례식에서 자식 된 도리로 종신도 못 했다며 눈물을 흘렸다.
    Min-jun cried at his father's funeral, saying, "i couldn't live my life because i was a child.".
  • 자네, 하루만 더 일찍 왔더라도 종신을 할 수 있었을 걸세.
    If you had come a day earlier, you could have died.
    저도 안타깝습니다. 어머님의 임종을 지켰어야 했는데.
    I'm sorry, too. i should have kept my mother's deathbed.
Synonym 임종(臨終): 죽음을 맞이함., 부모가 돌아가실 때 그 곁에 있음.

🗣️ Pronunciation, Application: 종신 (종신)
📚 Derivative: 종신적, 종신하다

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