how to pronounce affluent

/ˈæfluənt/

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affluent is pronounced in three syllables

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

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meanings of affluent

adjective:

Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth. The Upper East Side is an affluent neighborhood in New York City.
Tributary.
Abundant; copious; plenteous.
Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

noun:

Somebody who is wealthy.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.

affluent frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word affluent occurs in english on average 2.3 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 affluent 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 affluent can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;