HOW TO PRONOUNCE
aria
/ˈɑɹiə/
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Keep the vowels after r separate.
The first syllable has the main stress. an ee vowel follows r and then a relaxed final vowel, making three syllables overall.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The soprano sang the final aria.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does aria mean?
noun
- A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.
proper noun
- Acronym of Accessible Rich Internet Applications.
- Acronym of Australian Recording Industry Association.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- Acronym of Advanced Research and Invention Agency.
- A female given name from English.
- (historical) region in modern-day Afghanistan
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɑɹiə/
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She was growing interested in her occupation of picking out the aria, when there was a second rap at the door.
While she was in the tub she began to whistle softly the tenor aria, “Ah! Fuyez, douce image,” somehow appropriate to the bath.
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After Peter's stirring aria, "My heart is glad," the dramatic climax is reached in the C-major chorus, "The Church is built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets."
In the house Storace had finished the aria, and was even now bowing in her classic garb, but in approved eighteenth-century fashion, to the enthusiastic audience, who cheered her to the echo.
We need only to imagine the most ordinary scene in an opera, i.e., a declaration of love, sung; an aria declining it; an aria before committing suicide; a singing choir with a moral about this misfortune.