peroration

Questions about peroration

What does peroration mean?

peroration means "a flowery and highly rhetorical oration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peroration?

peroration has 5 syllables and divides as pe-ro-ra-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is peroration a common word?

peroration is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.