how to pronounce lavish

/ˈlævɪʃ/

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lavish is pronounced in two syllables

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lævɪʃ

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

“… live an obscenely lavish lifestyle and …”

meaning of lavish

Lavish means extravagant, excessive, or wasteful.

lavish frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word lavish occurs in english on average 3.3 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 lavish 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 lavish can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to lavish

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