vip
noun
Simple meaning
Someone who is accorded special privileges due to their status or importance.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
viaɪˈpi
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
A person who is accorded special privileges due to their status or importance.
biochemistry
A peptide hormone that is vasoactive in the intestine.
medicinepathology
Abbreviation of ventilator-induced pneumonia.
Alternative letter-case form of VIP ("very important person").
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: A person who is accorded special privileges due to their status or importance.
Used this way, vip is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It suits considered writing and prepared speech.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Formal and precise
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use vip
- “The VIP guests received special treatment at the event.”
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye.
New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head.
Highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye.
Of southern Europe.
Small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia.
Large heavy-bodied brilliantly marked and extremely venomous west African viper.
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