How to pronounce lemon
American English pronunciation
LEM-un
- IPA
- /ˈlɛmən/
- Syllables
- LEM · un (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What lemon means
Most people know lemon in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
Something, like a used car, that never works right
In a sentence: The used car Dad bought turned out to be a lemon that broke down every single week.
Where it comes from: The fruit's name came into English through older languages from Arabic and Persian words. No one is sure how lemon came to mean a thing that keeps failing.
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