how to pronounce greenwood

/ˈɡɹiːnˌwʊd/

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greenwood is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… have greenwood and first boulevard who …”

meanings of greenwood

name:

A city, the county seat of Greenwood County, South Carolina.
A town and unincorporated community in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
A city in Clark County, Wisconsin.
A town in Louisiana.
A city in British Columbia, Canada.
A city in Indiana.
A town in Maine.
A city in Missouri.
A village in Nebraska.
A town in Delaware.
A village in Illinois.
A city in Minnesota.
A village in Nova Scotia, Canada.
A city in Arkansas, and one of the two county seats of Sebastian County.
A city, the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi.
A surname.
A town in Taylor County, Wisconsin.
A town in Florida.
A town in New York.

noun:

Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.
Certain half-shrubby species of genista.
A forest in full leaf, as in summer.

greenwood frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word greenwood occurs in english on average 1.7 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 greenwood 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 greenwood can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;