HOW TO PRONOUNCE
women
/ˈwɪmən/
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The first syllable sounds like “wim.”
Use the short i vowel heard in sit at the beginning. Keep the second vowel light; this plural has a different first vowel from the usual pronunciation of woman.
2 syllables · Stress on syllable 1
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“The women gathered for the meeting.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does women mean?
noun
- plural of woman
- Misspelling of woman.
- Clipping of women's team, used in club names, as in [Club Name] Women.
More meanings (1)
proper noun
- The fourth sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈwɪmən/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever else they might be, would be young.
Farther along we came upon a group of three women and two children in the road, busy clearing out a labourer’s cottage.
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There were as many women as men, and each was clothed in the wondrously wrought harness of his station and his house.
We reached the monastery before dark, and there the males were given lodging, but the women were sent over to the nunnery.
Always an interested observer of women, Wilson would have slackened his pace anywhere to follow this one with his impersonal, appreciative glance.