TubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “cup”
Hear “cup” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for cup
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of cup with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Billionaire and The Mechanic
to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup," it's
- Definition summary
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce cup
The Billionaire and The Mechanic

to Win Sailing's Greatest Race, The America's Cup," it's
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “cup”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A concave vessel for drinking, usually made of opaque material (as opposed to a glass) and with a handle.
- The contents of said vessel.
- A customary unit of measure
- A trophy in the shape of an oversized cup.
- A contest for which a cup is awarded.
- (soccer) The main knockout tournament in a country, organised alongside the league.
- (golf) A cup-shaped object placed in the target hole.
- A container in which dice are held and shaken before being thrown.
- (in combination) Any of various sweetened alcoholic drinks.
- (US, Canada) A rigid concave protective covering for the male genitalia.
- One of the two parts of a brassiere which each cover a breast.
- (mathematics) The symbol
- ∪
- {\displaystyle \cup }
- denoting union and similar operations.
- (tarot) A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or one of the cards from the suit.
- (ultimate frisbee) A defensive style characterized by a three player near defense cupping the thrower; or those three players.
- A flexible concave membrane used to temporarily attach a handle or hook to a flat surface by means of suction.
- Anything shaped like a cup.
- (medicine, historical) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.
- (figurative) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion of blessings and afflictions.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands.
- (transitive) To hold something in cupped hands.
- (transitive) To pour (a liquid, drink, etc.) into a cup.
- (transitive, obsolete) To supply with cups of wine.
- (transitive, surgery, archaic) To apply a cup or cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping.
- (transitive, engineering) To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- [Adjective]
- odd (not even)
Practice Nearby Words
loving cup, cupful, transfuse, chalice, goblet, bottle, jar, pot, bowl, vial, cafe, café, scoop, coffee, harvest, harvesting, drink, bucket, coupe, mowing, chop, mower, tea, eggshell, beaker, wood, stumpage, shearing, logging, timber, crucible, glass, hole, cutter, haircut, felling, hairdo, hairstyle, hair, hairline, drape, crown, bulldozer, tailoring, cutting, bonnet, shield, cut, slash, clipping, calyx, calcium, team, container, vessel, pennant, tournament, thumb, cross-section, cop, shell, trim, puppet, mullet, thrall, trophy, section, receptacle, puppetry, clearing, starring, series, taxation, mug, pandora, tax, mondial, pui, upc, crf, championship, match, soccer, football, tennis, kobe, copa, cass, bui, champions, championships, clear-cutting, futbol, kass, taza, tumbler, teacup, flagon, tankard, stein
Similar Sounds
cup, kop, cupp, kup, kip, kep, kepp, kipp, qip, kyp, keep, cap, cop, cape, cope, cub, coop, coupe, koop, kap, capp, copp, kapp, coap, kopp, kape, kype, kub, qup, kipe, coppe, kaup, koepp, caup, caap, cappe, ccap, kupe, cowp, kaap, qop, kappe, kuip, cuyp, gup, kib, keb, kibbe, kjp, cab, cups, cob, cusp, cobb, cuppa, cah, cupped, cabe, kuh, cobe, gip, krupp, cuppy, culp, kob, cupper, cca, clup, coob, kha, koob, crp, cump, crup, clp, compl, knupp, kab, gep, kibe, capy, curp, kerp, cupps, kka, cobh, chrp, hka, eyecup, caib, kmp, crpe, eye cup, caab, klp, ksp, kaab, kpe, kpp