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How to pronounce “buttress”
Hear “buttress” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for buttress
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of buttress with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees 20 minutes
This reiteration is a huge flying buttress
- Definition summary
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce buttress
Richard Preston: Climbing the world's biggest trees 20 minutes
This reiteration is a huge flying buttress
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “buttress”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (architecture) A brick, concrete or stone structure built against another structure to support it.
- (by extension) Anything that serves to support something; a prop.
- (botany) A buttress-root.
- (climbing) A feature jutting prominently out from a mountain or rock.
- (figurative) Anything that supports or strengthens.
- [Verb]
- To support something physically with, or as if with, a prop or buttress.
- (figurative, by extension) To support something or someone by supplying evidence.
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