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Abundance Pronunciation
Abundance is pronounced uh-BUHN-duhns, IPA /əˈbəndəns/.
uh-BUHN-duhns
US /əˈbəndəns/ · UK /əˈbʌndəns/
Syllables: uh · BUHN · duhns (3 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: The state of there being plenty of something rather than too little.
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Abundance in a Sentence
- The garden gives us tomatoes in abundance every August.
- An abundance of caution kept the bridge closed.
- There is no abundance of parking anywhere near the station.
Common Mispronunciations of Abundance
Not uh-BUHN-dayns
Flatten the -ance ending to duhns. All the force has gone to BUHN already, so nothing after it keeps a full vowel.
Not A-buhn-duhns
Count three beats and give the middle one everything. The opening a is barely a vowel at all.
Tip: Abundance and abundant part company only at the very end, duhns against duhnt.
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