how to pronounce imaginary

/ˌɪˈmædʒəˌnɛɹiː/

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imaginary is pronounced in five syllables

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

“… this is for all my imaginary friends and …”

meanings of imaginary

noun:

The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
An imaginary quantity.
Imagination; fancy.

adjective:

Having no real part; that part of a complex number which is a multiple of the square root of -1.
Existing only in the imagination.

imaginary frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word imaginary occurs in english on average 9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;