how to pronounce frigate

/ˈfɹɪɡət/

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frigate is pronounced in two syllables

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fɹɪɡət

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meanings of frigate

noun:

  1. An obsolete type of sailing warship with a single continuous gun deck, typically used for patrolling, blockading, etc, but not in line of battle.
  2. A frigatebird.
  3. A modern type of warship, smaller than a destroyer, originally (WWII) introduced as an anti-submarine vessel but now general purpose.
  4. A 19th-century warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the battle line until made obsolete by the development of the solely steam-propelled iron battleship.

frigate frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word frigate occurs in english on average 0.2 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 frigate 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 frigate can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;

words with pronunciation similar to frigate

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words that rhyme with frigate

spigot

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