sakeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: sāk, IPA^(key): /seɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

名詞

sake (複数形 sakes)

1. cause, interest or account

   For the sake of argument

2. purpose or end; reason

   For old times' sake

3. the benefit or regard of someone or something
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.

     But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]

4. (廃れた用法 except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
   • Genesis, 3:17

     And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

使用する際の注意点

• The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun (see the quotations above, for sake of, かつ for the sake of).

• Garner's Modern American Usage notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake.

派生語

関連する語

名詞

sake (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sakes)

1. Alternative spelling of saké

アナグラム

• KEAS, Kase, akes, aske, keas, kesa, seak