HOW TO PRONOUNCE
telescope
/ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/
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Keep the primary stress on “tel.”
Use three syllables, with a light middle vowel and a secondary beat on scope. Keep s and k together before the long o, then finish directly with p.
3 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“She adjusted the telescope before sunset.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does telescope mean?
noun
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- A retractable tubular support for lights.
More meanings (5)
noun
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
verb
- To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- To collapse, via cancellation.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass.
The contents of her gray telescope were becoming untidy, and it seemed impossible to keep one’s face and hands clean in Chicago.
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Among the glorious objects which the telescope reveals, the most impressive is that of the starry heavens in a clear dark night.
We had accordingly to look to foreign countries for the further improvement of the achromatic telescope, which Dollond had so much advanced.
Lengthening her ovipositor like a telescope, the mother inserted the point of her implement, a point slightly hardened with a horny armor.