elopement
pronunciation
How to pronounce elopement in British English:
UK [ɪ'ləʊpmənt]
How to pronounce elopement in American English:
US [ɪ'loʊpmənt]
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- Noun:
- the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)
Word Origin
- elopement (n.)
- 1540s, from elope + -ment. (The word was in Anglo-French in 14c. as alopement).
Example
- 1. Had they no apprehension of anything before the elopement took place ?
- 2. Mr. wang 's mobile phone number , disconnected after he announced his elopement , hasn 't been reconnected .
- 3. When mr bennet arrived home , he appeared as calm as ever , but in a conversation with elizabeth he admitted that he felt to blame for lydia 's elopement .
- 4. Monday 's post had been re-published by other weibo users just short of 1700 times by tuesday afternoon -- a far cry from the roughly 60000 times his original elopement post was re-published within its first 24 hours .