how to pronounce esprit

/ɛsˈpɹiː/

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esprit is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… it's not in fact esprit spends less …”

meanings of esprit

noun:

Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.
Spirit, enthusiasm.
A wit.

esprit frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word esprit occurs in english on average 0.7 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 esprit 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 esprit can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;