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How to pronounce “laughter”
Hear “laughter” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for laughter
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of laughter with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Professor Sophie Scott
Thank you very much for coming to my talk on laughter.
- Definition summary
- The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce laughter
Professor Sophie Scott

Thank you very much for coming to my talk on laughter.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “laughter”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
- A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
- (archaic) A reason for merriment.
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