how to pronounce civilians

/səˈvɪljənz/

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civilians is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… both military and civilians i'm not …”

meanings of civilians

noun:

Plural of civilian.

civilians frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word civilians occurs in english on average 8.8 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 civilians 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 civilians can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;