Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: burton
IPA transcription: [b'ɝtən]
Pronunciations of burton
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Burton
    Meaning: a strong dark English ale
  • Synonyms: Burton, Richard_Burton
    Meaning: Welsh film actor who often co-starred with Elizabeth Taylor (1925-1984)
  • Synonyms: Burton, Richard_Burton, Sir_Richard_Burton, Sir_Richard_Francis_Burton
    Meaning: English explorer who with John Speke was the first European to explore Lake Tanganyika (1821-1890)
Usage examples
  • DANIEL BURTON TAKES THE PLUNGE
  • BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.
  • Why, Mr. Burton, what do you mean?
  • I wish she had been able to go to Burton once afore she died."
  • "Now, Keith Burton, you stop right where you are," interrupted Susan harshly.
  • He was wretched at this time--ill-satisfied with himself and others--and was no fitting companion for Cecilia Burton.
  • Five minutes later Daniel Burton entered the kitchen--a proceeding so extraordinary that Susan broke off her song in the middle of a "Hurrah" and grew actually pale.
  • "Oh, Susan, if we only could!" A dawning hope had come into Keith Burton's face, but almost at once it faded into gray disappointment. "We couldn't do it, though, Susan.
  • The town, aware now of the stupendous change that had come to the fortunes of the Burton family, stared, gossiped, shook wise heads of prophecy, then passed on to the next sensation--which happened to be the return of four soldiers from across the seas; three crippled, one blinded.
  • Lady Julia's manners were certainly not quite those of Mrs. Roper; but she made the tea very much in the way in which it was made at Burton Crescent, and Eames found that he could eat his egg, at any rate on the second morning, without any tremor in his hand, in spite of the coronet on the silver egg-cup.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hamlet, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Star Trek, License CC BY-SA 4.0