how to pronounce media

/ˈmiːdiːə/

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media is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… the public to the media they have asked …”

meanings of media

noun:

Means and institutions for publishing and broadcasting information.
The middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel or lymph vessel which is composed of connective and muscular tissue.
The journalists and other professionals who comprise the mass communication industry.
A voiced stop consonant.
The totality of content items (television shows, films, books, etc) which are broadcast or published.
An ant specialized as a forager in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the radius and the cubitus.
Plural of medium.

name:

A region in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes.
The territories corresponding to the empire ruled by dynasts from Media.
A borough, the county seat of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.

media frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word media occurs in english on average 163.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) leisure and entertainment;