🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

재발명하다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jaebalmyeonghada

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Reinvent/ˌriːɪnˈvent/
verbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그녀는 자신의 경력을 재발명하고 싶어한다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To create something new or different from something that already exists.

    "The company aims to reinvent the way we think about transportation."
  2. 2

    To change or adapt something significantly to improve it.

    "She decided to reinvent her career after years in the same job."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 're-' (again) and 'invenire' (to find, come upon, invent). Entering English in the late 16th century, the term originally meant to find or discover anew, evolving through the centuries to signify changing something so fundamentally that it appears entirely new.

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