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requiem

/ˈɹɛkwiəm/

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Listen for k followed by w.

The first syllable is strongest. In the middle, qu has a k-w sequence, followed by ee and a separate relaxed vowel before the final m.

3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1

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The choir performed a requiem.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does requiem mean?

noun

  1. A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
  2. A musical composition for such a mass.
  3. A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
More meanings (2)

noun

  1. A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
  2. (obsolete) Rest; peace.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɹɛkwiəm/

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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They seemed to chant a requiem over our buried joy, to pray forgiveness for our love that would not die.
Anthony HopeThe prisoner of ZendaProject Gutenberg ebook #95
We should profane the service of the dead To sing sage requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
More book examples (3)
And the soft Formosan grass grew over his grave, the winds roared about it, and the river and the sea sang his requiem.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
Voice and instrument seemed both living, and threw out with vivid sympathy those strains which the ethereal Mozart first conceived as his own dying requiem.
Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinProject Gutenberg ebook #203
The Persian remembered the requiem mass which he had heard from behind the wall of the torture-chamber, and had no doubt concerning the crime and the criminal.
Gaston LerouxThe Phantom of the OperaProject Gutenberg ebook #175