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How to pronounce “balloon”

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Pronunciation guide for balloon

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of balloon with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: True Stuff from Old Booksthat a great number of experiments had been made with balloons, but these are in no sense
Definition summary: An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.

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True Stuff from Old Books

that a great number of experiments had been made with balloons, but these are in no sense

[Noun]
An inflatable buoyant object, often (but not necessarily) round and flexible.
Such an object as a child’s toy or party decoration.
Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.
(medicine) A sac inserted into part of the body for therapeutic reasons; such as angioplasty.
A speech bubble.
A type of glass cup, sometimes used for brandy.
(architecture) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc.
(chemistry) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
(pyrotechnics) A bomb or shell.
(obsolete) A game played with a large inflated ball.
(engraving) The outline enclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
(slang) A woman's breast.
(slang) A small container for illicit drugs made from a condom or the finger of a latex glove, etc.
(finance) Synonym of balloon payment.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To increase or expand rapidly.
(intransitive) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
(transitive) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
(transitive) To inflate like a balloon.
(transitive, sports) To strike (a ball) so that it flies high in the air.
(aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.