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How to pronounce “urn”
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Pronunciation guide for urn
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of urn with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 7 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it
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- Definition summary
- A vase with a footed base.
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How to pronounce urn
How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it
You like the urn metaphor,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “urn”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A vase with a footed base.
- A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
- A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
- (figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
- (historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
- (botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To place in an urn.
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