HOW TO PRONOUNCE
elocution
/ˌɛləkˈjuʃən/
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Stress “cu,” with the sound of “kyoo.”
Keep the y after k in that strong syllable, then let the final tion form one light shun.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“The class includes an elocution exercise.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does elocution mean?
noun
- The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɛləkˈjuʃən/
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See this word in context.
On the occasion of my visit there was little of what we call acting, but endless elocution.
I was no longer dependent upon others, no longer looking to physicians or elocution teachers or hypnotists to cure me of stammering.
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In no schools is the general influence so absolutely morbid and unwholesome, as in most of the schools of elocution and acting.
Prince Vasíli himself, famed for his elocution, was to read it.
Then he left home to become a teacher of elocution in various British schools, and by the time he was of age he had made several slight discoveries as to the nature of vowel-sounds.