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How to pronounce “alternative”
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Pronunciation guide for alternative
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of alternative with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Green Illusions
And I argue that alternative energy technologies rely on a
- Definition summary
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce alternative
Green Illusions
And I argue that alternative energy technologies rely on a
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “alternative”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
- Other; different from something else.
- Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground.
- (obsolete) Alternate, reciprocal.
- [Noun]
- A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between two or more possibilities. [from 17th c.]
- One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen. [from 17th c.]
- The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted. [from 18th c.]
- (uncountable, music) alternative rock
- A non-offensive word or phrase that serves as a replacement for a word deemed offensive or unacceptable, though not as a euphemism.
- [Adverb]
- alternatively
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Similar Sounds
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