how to pronounce dinosaur

/ˈdaɪnəˌsɔːɹ/

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dinosaur is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… some kind of weird dinosaur reptile they …”

meaning of dinosaur

A dinosaur is a prehistoric animal that lived on Earth about 250 million years ago.

dinosaur frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word dinosaur occurs in english on average 4.5 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 dinosaur 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 dinosaur can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

2) life, nature, and living environment;