Pronunciation
How to pronounce “picture”
“picture” is pronounced /pɪktʃɚ/ — 2 syllables.
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picture
/pɪktʃɚ/
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2 syllables. Stress the 'pɪktʃ' part (say it longer and louder) and let the others relax — unstressed vowels often soften to a lazy /ə/.Meaning
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
“they showed us the pictures of their wedding”
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