--- title: "How to pronounce \"hemline\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"hemline\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ZLNbxWH8Lc/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hemline" --- # How to pronounce "hemline" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ˈhɛmˌlaɪn/` - **Native Audio Recording**: [Listen to Audio Clip](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-hemline.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-hemline.wav.mp3) - **Syllable Breakdown**: **hem·line** - **Parts of Speech**: noun - **NOUN**: The line formed by the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; hem. - **NOUN**: The height of this line, measured from the floor. - *Example*: "above-knee hemline" ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (10 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "hemline" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "It's how people make choices and there are two elements to this theory. It replaces expected utility The women's hemlines rose and peaked in 1929 and then the skirt lengths came down in the 1930s, right with the market;" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 63:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLNbxWH8Lc&t=3825s) ### Example 2 > "in and hemlines coming up the formation of the bikini and I don't know what year but you know probably the 40s or 50s over a whole piece suits and so a lot of" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 79:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfrtlBcgI00&t=4770s) ### Example 3 > "from the runways or simply use our personal inspiration that leads to changes in the cuts or the shape of the skirts that never used to happen the hemline is Shifting you can play around a lot more shim's label translates as Black Forest Couture named after the southern German region where the dundle has a long history her dresses are made in" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 2:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pA0dSM-bOY&t=129s) ### Example 4 > "back seat even matching slippers some local drivers compete to see how low they can get their skirts hemlines Marco rota puts lots of work into his car too much he says he spent every" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 12:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTzBjZ_fNo&t=762s) ### Example 5 > "Italy is running at the moment and hemlines are right up being pelmets again uh but the main looks really are the wider trouser The Paisley the rose" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 59:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEcBPnJxfGk&t=3598s) ### Example 6 > "a millennium long or multi-millennium long um decline in hemline. Um, and then" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 10:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZgu1AhPGo&t=636s) ### Example 7 > "that the upcoming season they're predicting short skirts uh so presumably someone hopes that that old myth about the economy gets better and and hemlines go up will hold true maybe if we bring the hemlines up the economy will improve um nowadays it's hard to track any one" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13nSkIfyXsM&t=34s) ### Example 8 > "certainly seen that the upcoming season they're predicting short skirts uh so presumably someone hopes that that old myth about the economy gets better and and hemlines go up will hold true maybe if we bring the hemlines up the economy will improve um nowadays it's hard to track any one set of Trends because ever since the" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 0:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMR-Qgc3Ho&t=40s) ### Example 9 > "rear hinge doors and a whiskey lounge on the back seat even matching slippers some opal drivers compete to see how low they can get their skirts hemlines puts lots of work into his car too much he says he spent every winter for 10" - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 1:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbws28VhLU&t=64s) ### Example 10 > "Remember, the mini skirts came in the 1970s, right? Then the 1970s--'74 crash didn't exactly--I don't know if hemlines came down." - **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 64:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZLNbxWH8Lc&t=3848s) ## Related Words & Synonyms - **Nearby Vocabulary**: [headline](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/headline), [healing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/healing) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce "hemline" correctly? "hemline" is pronounced `/ˈhɛmˌlaɪn/`. Syllable breakdown: **hem·line**. ### What does "hemline" mean in context? The line formed by the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; hem. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hemline#webpage", "url": "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/hemline", "name": "How to pronounce \"hemline\" in English | SayItVid", "description": "Learn how to say \"hemline\" correctly. 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