HOW TO PRONOUNCE
facsimile
/fækˈsɪməli/
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The final e is pronounced.
The second syllable carries the main stress. Keep the k-s sequence near the beginning and finish with lee, rather than making the final e silent.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The library owns a facsimile of the manuscript.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does facsimile mean?
noun
- A copy or reproduction.
- Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
- A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images by means of radio or a telephone network.
More meanings (3)
noun
- The image sent by the machine itself.
verb
- To send by means of a facsimile machine; to fax.
- To make a copy of; to reproduce.
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IPA pronunciation
/fækˈsɪməli/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile.
Only one or two copies of this journal are now discoverable, but its appearance can be judged from the reduced facsimile here shown.
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To-day's method is the facsimile of yesterday's; and to-morrow will know no other.
His eye must be accustomed to all the tricks of the trade and others, so that he may tell a facsimile in a moment, or detect a forgery.
I shot a jungle-cock, and was quite disappointed at finding him a facsimile of our barndoor game-cock, for I had imagined that he would have the velvety black wing starred with cream-coloured eyes, which we associate with the "jungle-cock wing" of salmon flies.