HOW TO PRONOUNCE
florida
/ˈflɔɹədə/
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Start strongly and relax the ending.
Florida has several vowel variants. For three-syllable pronunciations, keep the strongest beat at the beginning and the two following syllables light.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“We visited Florida in February.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does florida mean?
proper noun
- A state of the United States. Capital: Tallahassee. Largest city: Jacksonville.
- The peninsula which makes up most of the state of Florida, United States.
- Ellipsis of University of Florida.
More meanings (31)
proper noun
- Two adjacent cities in Vicente López department, Buenos Aires province, Argentina: Florida Este and Florida Oeste.
- A province of Santa Cruz department, Bolivia.
- A municipality of Paraná, Brazil.
- A town and commune of the Biobío region, Chile.
- A town in Valle del Cauca department, Colombia.
- A municipality of Copán department, Honduras.
- A district of the Amazonas region, Peru.
- A department of Uruguay.
- A city, the capital of Florida department, Uruguay.
- A municipality and city in Camagüey province, Cuba.
- A town and municipality of Puerto Rico.
- A barrio of the municipality of San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico.
- A barrio in the municipality and island of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
- An unincorporated community in La Plata County, Colorado, named for the river.
- An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, named for the state.
- A township in Parke County, Indiana, named after a place in New York.
- A town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, perhaps named for Spanish Florida.
- A township in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, named after Florida Creek.
- A ghost town and former village in Monroe County, Missouri, named for the state.
- A town in Montgomery County, New York, named for the state.
- A village in Orange County, New York.
- A village in Henry County, Ohio, named for the state.
- A river in Colorado, flowing from Lillie Lake in the Weminuche Wilderness into the Animas near Durango.
- A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa, perhaps named for the state.
- An unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada.
- A barangay of Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines.
- A barangay of Maria Aurora, Aurora, Philippines.
- A barangay of Talusan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
- A barangay of Kapalong, Davao del Norte, Philippines.
- A barangay of Butuan, Agusan del Norte, Caraga, Philippines.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈflɔɹədə/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Other dictionary pronunciations
/ˈfloɹɪdə//ˈfloɹədə//ˈfloɹdə/
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Two days after starting, the Tampico, having made four hundred and eighty miles, came in sight of the coast of Florida.
He read of the early departure for the season of a party composed of the Vanderbilts and their friends for Florida.
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In the kitchen-middings of Florida Wyman found human bones, which had been intentionally broken, mixed with those of deer and beavers.
Certain devices most effective in the groves of California may not answer in Florida or Louisiana because of entirely different weather conditions.
Some geologists admit that the uninterrupted chain of islands from Trinidad to Florida exhibits the remains of an ancient chain of mountains.