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How to pronounce “pun”
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Pronunciation guide for pun
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of pun with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language
like not picking up on sarcasm or not recognizing a pun
- Definition summary
- (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce pun
Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language
like not picking up on sarcasm or not recognizing a pun
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “pun”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
- (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
- [Noun]
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
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Similar Sounds
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