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say it: DRAH-powt
dropout is a noun meaning "someone who quits school before graduation". It is pronounced /ˈdɹɑˌpaʊt/ — DRAH-powt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
someone who quits school before graduation
someone who withdraws from a social group or environment
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dropout come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.