how to pronounce bluegrass
/ˈbluɡˌɹæs/
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bluegrass is pronounced in two syllables
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An example use of bluegrass in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… d'oeuvres bluegrass there was a pitch …”
meanings of bluegrass
noun:
- A style of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz and characterized by banjos, fiddles, acoustic guitars, dobros, and mandolins; but containing no drums, electric guitars, pianos or other keyboard or wind instruments.
- Kentucky bluegrass, Poa pratensis.
bluegrass frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR
the word bluegrass occurs in english on average 2 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 bluegrass 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 bluegrass can be often used in the following areas:
1) leisure and entertainment;
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