English pronunciation · Words Starting with R
Renaissance Pronunciation
Renaissance is pronounced re-nuh-SAHNS, IPA /ˌrɛnəˈsɑns/.
re-nuh-SAHNS
US /ˌrɛnəˈsɑns/ · UK /rɪˈneɪsəns/
Syllables: re · nuh · SAHNS (3 syllables, stress on syllable 3)
noun: A revival of interest or activity, or the great European flowering of art from the fourteenth century onward.
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Renaissance in a Sentence
- The town is enjoying a renaissance.
- Renaissance painters rediscovered perspective.
- Vinyl has had an unlikely renaissance.
Common Mispronunciations of Renaissance
Not ri-NAY-suhns
Americans put the beat at the end, re-nuh-SAHNS, which is close to the French. British speakers front it instead. Both are standard.
Not re-nuh-SANS
In the American reading that stressed vowel is the ah of father, and the ending hisses out as suhns.
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