| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| karaoke |
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| SYLLABICATION: | kar·a·o·ke |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kâr  -  k |
| NOUN: | 1. A music entertainment system providing prerecorded accompaniment to popular songs that a performer sings live, usually by following the words on a video screen. 2. The performance of such music. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Japanese : kara, void, empty + oke(sutora), orchestra (from English orchestra).
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