how to pronounce bologna

/bəˈloʊniː/

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bologna is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… great universities Krakow Bologna Padua …”

meaning of bologna

Bologna is a city in Italy.

bologna frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bologna occurs in english on average 2.6 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 bologna 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 bologna can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;