how to pronounce burton

/ˈbɝtən/

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burton is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… i was really into tim burton all of the …”

meanings of burton

name:

A village in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire (OS grid ref SK9674).
A village in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, Dorset (OS grid ref SZ1694).
A city in Michigan.
A census-designated place in South Carolina.
A number of places in the United States:.
A number of places in England and Wales:.
A hamlet in Bamburgh parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NU1733).
A village in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9805).
A village in Wrexham county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3557).
A village in Ohio.
A village in Nebraska.
A small village in Duddon and Burton parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ5163).
An English habitational surname for someone who lived in any of several places with that name.
A village in Illinois.
A village on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire (OS grid ref SJ3174).
A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which serves and is also short for Burton upon Trent.
A town in Texas.
A hamlet in Mere parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8232).
A male given name.
A village in Nettleton parish, Wiltshire (OS grid ref ST8179).

noun:

An arrangement of blocks and pulleys, especially for tightening rigging on a ship.
Storage of cargo athwartships.

burton frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word burton occurs in english on average 6.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) people, society, and culture;