HOW TO PRONOUNCE
sherbet
/ˈʃɝbət/
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Use one “r” sound, before “b.”
Move from the strong r-colored vowel directly into b, then a light vowel and t, without adding another r in the ending.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“We served lemon sherbet for dessert.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does sherbet mean?
noun
- A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
- An effervescent powder made of bicarbonate of soda, sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.
- A traditional West and South Asian sweet drink prepared from fruits or flower petals.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (slang) An alcoholic drink, especially beer.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈʃɝbət/
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A very fine sherbet can be made from the fruit, which acts as an excellent corrective and stomachic.
Her visitors sat on the divans cross-legged or not according to their nation, smoked, drank sherbet and coffee, and ate sweetmeats.
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The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up—flaked up, with rose-water snow.
A like tax was levied on liquid chocolate and sherbet as articles of sale.
The streets are formed of open stalls under the first story, in which squat tailors, cooks, sherbet vendors and the like, busy at their work or smoking narghilehs.