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How to pronounce “vanilla

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Pronunciation guide for vanilla

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of vanilla with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Candy is Magicand a little bit of vanilla bean.
Definition summary
(countable) Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

Example 1 of 8

How to pronounce vanilla

Candy is Magic

and a little bit of vanilla bean.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “vanilla

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • (countable) Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  • (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
  • (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
  • A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
  • (derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person.
  • [Adjective]
  • (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
  • (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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