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repose

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Rest or peaceful sleep. It often sounds more formal or literary than “rest.”

Detailed Definition
Repose is a literary word for calm rest, quiet, or sleep. In the poem, it suggests the earned peace that follows a day of labor, fitting the blacksmith’s steady, disciplined life.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Has earned a night’s repose,” where repose means restful sleep; Keats’s “soft embalmer of the still midnight” evokes repose in “To Sleep”; “The world is too much with us” contrasts human unrest with nature’s calm repose; contemporary lyric may seek “a brief repose from notifications and noise”
Additional Notes
“repose” in “Has earned a night's repose” is a more literary synonym for rest that may not be immediately familiar.; Found in the poem, The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Also Known As
rest tranquility peace slumber baith
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