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How to pronounce “waterfall”
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Pronunciation guide for waterfall
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of waterfall with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Inventing Niagra
really big waterfall is he asks see that
- Definition summary
- A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce waterfall
Inventing Niagra

really big waterfall is he asks see that
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “waterfall”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A flow of water over the edge of a cliff.
- (figuratively) A waterfall-like outpouring of liquid, smoke, etc.
- (software engineering) Short for waterfall model
- (slang, US) The action of drinking from a vessel without touching it with the lips, considered more sanitary for a shared vessel.
- (colloquial, dated) A necktie.
- (colloquial, dated) A chignon (hairstyle).
- (colloquial, dated) A beard.
- (gymnastics) A kind of handstand with chin tucked and back arched.
- [Verb]
- (intransitive) To fall like a waterfall.
- (transitive) To drink (something) from a container by pouring it from a height so as not to touch one's lips to the rim.
- (roller derby) Synonym of recycle.
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