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How to pronounce “cuneiform

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Practice the English pronunciation of cuneiform with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
When We Are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our FutureAnd this is a cuneiform, as many of you may recognize.
Definition summary
Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.

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How to pronounce cuneiform

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future

And this is a cuneiform, as many of you may recognize.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “cuneiform

Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • Having the form of a wedge; wedge-shaped, especially with a tapered end.
  • Written in the cuneiform writing system.
  • [Noun]
  • An ancient Mesopotamian writing system, adapted within several language families, originating as pictograms in Sumer around the 30th century BC, evolving into more abstract and characteristic wedge shapes formed by a blunt reed stylus on clayen tablets.
  • (anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.

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