how to pronounce geneva

/dʒəˈniːvə/

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geneva is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… here in Geneva Switzerland it's home to …”

meanings of geneva

name:

The largest lake in Switzerland.
A city, the county seat of Geneva County, Alabama, United States.
A city in Switzerland.
A city, the county seat of Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States.
The Geneva Convention.
A canton of Switzerland, having Geneva as its capital.
A female given name transferred from the place name or confused with Genevieve or Ginevra.
A city, the county seat of Kane County, Illinois, United States.

noun:

Gin, especially jenever.

geneva frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word geneva occurs in english on average 3.5 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 geneva 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 geneva can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;