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Atonement Pronunciation
Atonement is pronounced uh-TOHN-muhnt, IPA /əˈtoʊnmənt/.
uh-TOHN-muhnt
US /əˈtoʊnmənt/ · UK /əˈtəʊnmənt/
Syllables: uh · TOHN · muhnt (3 syllables, stress on syllable 2)
noun: Making up for a wrong, especially in a religious sense.
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Atonement in a Sentence
- The whole chapter is about atonement.
- He offered the work as a kind of atonement.
- Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement.
Common Mispronunciations of Atonement
Not A-tohn-muhnt
Skip past the opening uh and lean on TOHN. The word is at one with a suffix, which is where its sense and its rhythm come from.
Not uh-TAH-nuh-muhnt
Round the stressed vowel to the long oh of tone, and leave out the extra vowel before the ment.
Tip: Three syllables, uh-TOHN-muhnt. The middle is the word tone.
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