how to pronounce reed

/ˈɹiːd/

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

“… all that Rene you've heard for Reed and …”

meanings of reed

noun:

A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.
Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
A missile weapon.
A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.
The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
A measuring rod.
The hollow stem of these plants.
A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.
Reeding.
Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

verb:

To thatch.
To mill or mint with reeding.
Simple past tense and past participle of ree.

name:

A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
A surname, a spelling variant of Reid.
A village in Hertfordshire, England.

reed frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word reed occurs in english on average 7.3 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.