HOW TO PRONOUNCE
margarine
/ˈmɑɹdʒɚən/
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Stress “mar” and use a soft “g.”
Give g the j sound of jam. Keep the following r-colored vowel and final vowel light, rather than making the ending rhyme with green.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The recipe lists butter or margarine.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does margarine mean?
noun
- A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
verb
- To spread or cover (something) with margarine.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (dated) The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈmɑɹdʒɚən/
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We also took a quantity of seal meat cut into steaks, blubber, dried fish, chocolate, margarine, and biscuits.
Whale oil can be readily transformed into glycerine: it is used in the manufacture of soap, and quite recently, both in this country and in Norway, it has been refined by means of a simple hardening process into a highly palatable and nutritious margarine.