how to pronounce historic

/hɪsˈtɔːɹɪk/

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historic is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… the historic sites a pedestrian might …”

meaning of historic

Historic means of or relating to the past.

historic frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word historic occurs in english on average 19 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics historic 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 historic can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;