embodiment
pronunciation
How to pronounce embodiment in British English:
UK [ɪmˈbɒdimənt]
How to pronounce embodiment in American English:
US [ɪmˈbɑdimənt]
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- Noun:
- a new personification of a familiar idea
- a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept
- giving concrete form to an abstract concept
Word Origin
- embodiment (n.)
- 1824, from embody + -ment.
Example
- 1. Pros : the embodiment of the ultimate childhood fantasy .
- 2. Their next leader is a living embodiment of that shift .
- 3. Jimmy carter treated congress as an embodiment of everything that was wrong with american politics . Congress responded in kind .
- 4. And it will decide the fate of the device that schumpeter would see as the embodiment of all this : the euro .
- 5. Harriet tubman , the oldest member present , was the embodiment of their strength and their struggle .