how to pronounce sentinel

/ˈsɛntənəl/

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sentinel is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… and finally bot Sentinel is a website …”

meaning of sentinel

A sentinel is a person who stands guard at a place.

sentinel frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sentinel occurs in english on average 1.3 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 sentinel 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 sentinel can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;