How to pronounce gridiron
American English pronunciation
GRID-eye-urn
- IPA
- /ˈɡɹɪdaɪɚn/
- Syllables
- GRID · eye · urn (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What gridiron means
A football field marked with many lines
In a sentence: The players ran out onto the gridiron as the crowd cheered.
Where it comes from: It began as an old word for a griddle, a metal rack for cooking over a fire. Its ending was later changed to look like iron, and the football field got the name because its lines look like that rack.
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