HOW TO PRONOUNCE
adobe
/əˈdoʊbi/
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The final e is spoken as “ee.”
Begin with schwa and stress the middle oh vowel. Keep the final bee syllable light; unlike some spellings ending in e, this one has a final vowel sound.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The house is built of adobe.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does adobe mean?
noun
- An unburnt brick dried in the sun.
- The earth from which such bricks are made.
- A house made of adobe brick.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (informal) Any file, document or program that is associated with Adobe Inc.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈdoʊbi/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The soil preferred for oranges in California is a rich, deep alluvium, avoiding hard-pan or adobe subsoils.
He finds that the materials of which the adobe brick is composed are exactly the same as that of the surrounding plain.
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Does the growing of onion seed exhaust adobe land, and if so, how many years' cropping before it requires rest or fertilizing?
These latter were built chiefly of soft adobe bricks, and after the lapse of centuries, are nothing more than shapeless reminders of the past.
The ranch house is a one-story adobe structure built in the Spanish style of a rectangle, with all the doors opening upon a central court.