HOW TO PRONOUNCE
eligible
/ˈɛlədʒəbəl/
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Stress EL.
The g sounds like j in job. Keep the following vowels light.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The notice explains who is eligible.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does eligible mean?
adjective
- Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
- Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
noun
- One who is eligible.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛlədʒəbəl/
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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See this word in context.
“I should not be surprised,” said Darcy, “if he were to give it up as soon as any eligible purchase offers.”
On these accounts, one man appears to be a more eligible dispenser of the mercy of government, than a body of men.
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Some envious outsider made the suggestion that no one was eligible for membership who was not white enough to show blue veins.
Since Magna Carta, we have evidence showing quite conclusively that all freemen, above the age of twenty-one years, were eligible as jurors.
It was not only eligible in itself, commanding the passage of the river, but it was one in which defeat was not necessarily final.