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strife

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

Fighting, conflict, or serious trouble. It can also suggest ongoing hardship or tension.

Detailed Definition
Strife is a literary word for conflict, struggle, or discord. Poets often use it to give emotional weight to hardship, especially when describing a difficult life or inner conflict.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Free from all this strife” — contemporary lyric example; “And be one traveler, long I stood” — Robert Frost, where inner conflict replaces open strife; Civil strife darkens the city in the elegy; The poem turns private strife into a debate between hope and fear
Additional Notes
The word strife appears in a literary sense in the quoted line and may be less familiar to some readers than simpler words like trouble or conflict.; Found in the poem, Chasing Dreams, Counting Costs by Richard
Also Known As
conflict struggle discord turmoil warre
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