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How to pronounce “upright”
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Pronunciation guide for upright
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of upright with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Zeresenay Alemseged: Finding the origins of humanity 17 minutes
for human ancestors, upright walking traces,
- Definition summary
- Vertical; erect.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce upright
Zeresenay Alemseged: Finding the origins of humanity 17 minutes

for human ancestors, upright walking traces,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “upright”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Vertical; erect.
- In its proper orientation; not overturned.
- Greater in height than breadth.
- (figuratively) Of good morals; practicing ethical values.
- (of a golf club) Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft.
- [Adverb]
- In or into an upright position.
- [Noun]
- Any vertical part of a structure.
- A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- (informal) Short for upright piano
- (informal) Short for upright arcade game cabinet
- Ellipsis of upright vacuum cleaner.
- (obsolete, hunting, dialect, British) The tips of the antlers of a young deer.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen).
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