HOW TO PRONOUNCE
assurance
/əˈʃʊɹəns/
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American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
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Stress the middle syllable and listen for “sh.”
Use three vowel beats and a light opening uh. The double s represents a sh sound before the strongest vowel, followed by a lighter vowel and final ns.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“Her reply offered some assurance.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does assurance mean?
noun
- The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
- The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
- Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
- Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
- Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
- Subjective certainty of one's salvation.
- (obsolete) Betrothal; affiance.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈʃʊɹəns/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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“I have a nice snug little farm,” said Gabriel, with half a degree less assurance than when he had seized her hand.
For a while the imaginative daring of the artilleryman, and the tone of assurance and courage he assumed, completely dominated my mind.
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He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance.
Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the house, that I may proceed in my speech.
To make assurance surer, I got upon my hands and knees and crawled, without a sound, towards the corner of the house.