how to pronounce napoleon

/nəˈpoʊliːən/

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napoleon is pronounced in four syllables

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

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meanings of napoleon

noun:

  1. The franc germinal: a 20-franc gold coin issued under Napoleon.
  2. Clipping of double napoleon: a form of patience.
  3. A 19th-century five-card trick-taking game simplified from euchre.
  4. A person resembling Napoleon Bonaparte, in having come to dominate an area or sphere of activity through ruthlessness or illegality as well as surpassing ability.
  5. Clipping of Napoleon boot: a form of topboot worn by officers during the Napoleonic Wars.
  6. Clipping of Napoleon brandy: any excellent brandy; a serving of such a brandy.
  7. Clipping of Napoleon gun: a 12-pounder cannon first used by the Second French Empire.
  8. A multi-layered stacked pastry.
  9. Alternative form of nap: a horse to go nap on, a sure thing, a certain winner; a prediction of such a horse; a bet on such a horse.
  10. Clipping of Napoleon cake: another name for a millefeuille pastry.
  11. Other subsequent 20-franc coins, notes, or values.
  12. Alternative form of napoleon.
  13. Clipping of Napoleon bigarreau: a variety of the white-fleshed bigarreau cherry; a variety of cherry tree bearing such fruit.

name:

  1. A male given name from Italian sometimes given in honor of the French emperor.
  2. A city, the county seat of Henry County, Ohio.
  3. A city, the county seat of Logan County, North Dakota.
  4. A village in Silesia, Poland.
  5. A ghost town in Arkansas.
  6. A town in Indiana.
  7. Napoleon Bonaparte.
  8. An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
  9. A city in Missouri.
  10. A census-designated place in Michigan.
  11. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.

napoleon frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word napoleon occurs in english on average 3.9 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 napoleon 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 napoleon can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

words with pronunciation similar to napoleon

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