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How to pronounce “lemon

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Pronunciation guide for lemon

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of lemon with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
What's Left in Your Fridge?two onions a lemon and a potato you know
Definition summary
A yellowish citrus fruit.

Example 1 of 8

How to pronounce lemon

What's Left in Your Fridge?

two onions a lemon and a potato you know

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “lemon

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • A yellowish citrus fruit.
  • A semitropical evergreen tree, Citrus limon, that bears such fruits.
  • A more or less bright shade of yellow associated with lemon fruits.
  • (uncountable, rare) Lemon juice.
  • A lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
  • (slang) A defective or inadequate item or individual.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from “lemon flavour”) Favor.
  • (dated, fandom slang) A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
  • (geometry) The surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than 180° rotated about the straight line passing through the arc’s two endpoints.
  • [Adjective]
  • Containing or having the flavour/flavor and/or scent of lemons.
  • Of the pale yellow colour/color of lemons.
  • (Cockney rhyming slang, from "lemon tart") Smart; cheeky, vocal.
  • [Verb]
  • (transitive) To flavour with lemon.

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