Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: courtship
IPA transcription: [k'ɔɹtʃ,ɪp]
Pronunciations of courtship
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: courtship, wooing, courting, suit
    Meaning: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship"
Usage examples
  • And so very little courtship has sufficed.
  • The peculiar thing about a newt's courtship is its restraint.
  • She must avoid a kind of joking and badinage that should never be heard among well-bred young people in society--that about courtship and marriage.
  • I have seen a male, in the stress of his handicap courtship, stand on his fore-feet, gesticulating in amorous fashion with his hind feet in the air.
  • She was married in the year 1879 to Mr. Richard Tebrick, after a short courtship, and went to live after their honeymoon at Rylands, near Stokoe, Oxon.
  • The courtship of butterflies is, as before remarked, a prolonged affair. The males sometimes fight together in rivalry; and many may be seen pursuing or crowding round the same female.
  • Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land-snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together.
  • From the distance at which the courtship was being carried on, the male (who was, it must be admitted, a bit near-sighted congenitally) was unable to detect the change in personnel, and continued, even in the presence of the rubber eraser, to gyrate and undulate in a most conscientious manner, still under the impression that he was making a conquest.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mourning dove, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Zelda Fitzgerald, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Raven, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Triceratops, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording George VI, License CC BY-SA 4.0