how to pronounce hackney

/ˈhækniː/

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hackney is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… and this originated around Hackney em in …”

meanings of hackney

name:

  1. A town in eastern London, England, in this borough.
  2. (means of transportation): see hackney.
  3. An English habitational surname​.
  4. One of several breeds of compact English horses: see hackney.
  5. A London borough of Greater London, England, where once upon a time many horses were pastured.

noun:

  1. A breed of English horse.
  2. An ordinary horse.
  3. A horse used to ride or drive.
  4. A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
  5. A carriage for hire or a cab.

verb:

  1. To carry in a hackney coach.
  2. To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use.
  3. To use as a hackney.

adjective:

  1. Offered for hire; hence, much used; trite; mean.

hackney frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word hackney occurs in english on average 0.9 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 hackney 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 hackney can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;

words with pronunciation similar to hackney

acnewackyhackhockeyhookyhackershandydaiquiriacmehacked

words that rhyme with hackney

acne

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