how to pronounce bless

/ˈblɛs/

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bless is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… Harvard and others bless you who are in …”

meaning of bless

Bless means to say a prayer for someone's well-being.

bless frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word bless occurs in english on average 20.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics bless 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 bless can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;