how to pronounce cub

/ˈkʌb/

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cub is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… doing that trick this cub is literally …”

meanings of cub

noun:

  1. Initialism of cashed up bogan.
  2. A young fox.
  3. A cupboard.
  4. Synonym of cub reporter.
  5. A player on the team the "Chicago Cubs".
  6. A young man who seeks relationships with older women, or "cougars".
  7. A child, especially an awkward, rude, ill-mannered boy.
  8. Acronym of cashed up bogan.
  9. A stall for cattle.
  10. The young of certain other animals, including the bear, wolf, lion and tiger.
  11. A member of the Cub Scouts.

verb:

  1. To shut up or confine.
  2. To give birth to cubs.
  3. To hunt fox cubs.

cub frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word cub occurs in english on average 2.5 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 cub 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 cub can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

words with pronunciation similar to cub

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