how to pronounce acme

/ˈækmiː/

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acme is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of acme in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… mention my success on the Acme project …”

meanings of acme

name:

An unincorporated community in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States.
An unincorporated community in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
Alternative letter-case form of ACME.
An unincorporated community in Hamilton Township, Jackson County, Indiana, United States.
A census-designated place in Washington.
A ghost town in Texas.
A ghost town in Oklahoma.
An unincorporated community in Westmoreland County and Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A generic large company or corporation.
A village in Alberta, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.

noun:

Mature age; full bloom of life.
The top or highest point; pinnacle; culmination.
The crisis or height of a disease.

acme frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word acme occurs in english on average 0.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics acme can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that acme can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;

3) people, society, and culture;