ไดโนเสาร์
dinosaur
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- 1 dinosaur
- 2 dinosaur (a hopelessly outdated person or organization)
It primarily means a dinosaur. Informally, it can also refer critically to a person or organization seen as hopelessly outdated or resistant to change.
dinosaur
The ordinary word for a dinosaur, one of the prehistoric reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era.
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ไดโนเสาร์สูญพันธุ์ไปแล้ว daynoosǎw sǔunphan pay lɛ́ɛw Dinosaurs are extinct. ไดโนเสาร์สูญพันธุ์ไปแล้ว details
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พิพิธภัณฑ์นี้มีโครงกระดูกไดโนเสาร์ phíphíttháphan níi mii khrooŋ kradùuk daynoosǎw This museum has a dinosaur skeleton. พิพิธภัณฑ์นี้มีโครงกระดูกไดโนเสาร์ details
dinosaur (a hopelessly outdated person or organization)
A critical, informal label for a person or organization considered extremely old-fashioned and unwilling or unable to adapt.
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ความคิดแบบไดโนเสาร์ khwaam khít bɛ̀ɛp daynoosǎw dinosaur-like, outdated thinking ความคิดแบบไดโนเสาร์ details
Learning notes
Explanation
This is a well-established Thai loanword from English “dinosaur.” When counting individual dinosaurs, use the classifier ตัว: ไดโนเสาร์หนึ่งตัว means “one dinosaur,” and ไดโนเสาร์สองตัว means “two dinosaurs.” Use ชนิด when counting types, as in ไดโนเสาร์หลายชนิด, “many kinds of dinosaurs.” Common combinations include ฟอสซิลไดโนเสาร์ (dinosaur fossil), โครงกระดูกไดโนเสาร์ (dinosaur skeleton), ไดโนเสาร์กินเนื้อ (carnivorous dinosaur), and ไดโนเสาร์กินพืช (herbivorous dinosaur). When applied to people or organizations, it becomes a negative metaphor suggesting that they are old-fashioned and resistant to change. It can also appear in modifying expressions such as ความคิดแบบไดโนเสาร์, meaning “dinosaur-like, outdated thinking.”
Usage
In its literal sense, it is common in conversations with children and in books, toys, museums, school lessons, movies, and other discussions of prehistoric life. The figurative sense appears in criticism or mockery of outdated attitudes, workplace practices, political institutions, technology, or people who resist change.
Caution
In scientific usage, flying reptiles such as pterosaurs and marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs, so avoid grouping all prehistoric reptiles under this word when accuracy matters. Calling a person or organization ไดโนเสาร์ is often mocking or derogatory and may be offensive when said directly to them.