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How to pronounce “merit”
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Pronunciation guide for merit
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of merit with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance
pondering the merit of mountain climbing now
- Definition summary
- (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce merit
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance
pondering the merit of mountain climbing now
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “merit”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
- (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
- (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
- (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
- (uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
- (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
- (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.
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