VIP
pronunciation
How to pronounce VIP in British English:
UK [ˌvi: aɪ ˈpi:]
How to pronounce VIP in American English:
US [ˌviaɪ'pi]
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- Noun:
- an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
Word Origin
- VIP (n.)
- also V.I.P., 1933, initialism (acronym) for very important person or personage; not common until after World War II. At most, the greatest persons, are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightfull conversation, but as moales for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world, that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. [John Donne, letter to Sir Henry Goodere, Sept. 1608]
Example
- 1. Would she like him to wait in a vip room before cremation ?
- 2. Nokia has agreed with air china to install wireless chargers in beijing airport vip lounges .
- 3. Even international luxury brands , such as cartier , see the merits of building a vip section .
- 4. Sands claims to have changed the vip market in the territory , which is hard to dispute .
- 5. It has much to excite and reassure vips , starting with the armed guards discreetly positioned near the special vip entrance .