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How to pronounce “recess”
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Pronunciation guide for recess
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of recess with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Trouble with Boys
have had re we've seen recess shrink and
- Definition summary
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce recess
The Trouble with Boys
have had re we've seen recess shrink and
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “recess”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A depressed, hollow, or indented space; also, a hole or opening.
- (countable) A hidden, innermost, or inaccessible place or part of a place.
- (countable) A temporary stoppage of an activity; a break, a pause.
- (countable, archaic) An act of retiring or withdrawing; a moving back.
- (countable, historical) A decree or resolution of the diet of the Holy Roman Empire or the Hanseatic League.
- (obsolete)
- (countable, geology) An overall-concave, reentrant section of a sinuous fold and thrust belt, thrust sheet, or a single thrust fault, caused by one or more of: deformation (folding and faulting) of strata and geologic structures during orogenesis, differences in the angle of critical taper during orogenesis, or differing erosional level of the present geomorphological surface.
- [Adjective]
- (obsolete, rare) Of a place or time: distant, remote.
- [Verb]
- (transitive)
- (intransitive, chiefly US, government)
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