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say it: EL-uh-kwuhns
eloquence is a noun meaning "powerful and effective language". It is pronounced /ˈɛləkwəns/ — EL-uh-kwuhns. It carries one recorded sense.
powerful and effective language
“his eloquence attracted a large congregation”
“fluency in spoken and written English is essential”
“his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police”
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 eloquence 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.