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How to pronounce “elderly”
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Pronunciation guide for elderly
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of elderly with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better 18 minutes
and often they live in separate retirements homes for the elderly,
- Definition summary
- old; having lived for relatively many years.
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How to pronounce elderly
Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better 18 minutes

and often they live in separate retirements homes for the elderly,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “elderly”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- old; having lived for relatively many years.
- Of an object, being old-fashioned or frail due to aging.
- [Noun]
- (uncommon) An elderly person.
- (with definite article, collective) Older people as a whole.
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