how to pronounce shakespeare
/ˈʃɛɪkˌspiːɹ/
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shakespeare is pronounced in two syllables
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An example use of shakespeare in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… so who is this Shakespeare guy anyway we …”
meanings of shakespeare
name:
- A surname.
- His works or media adaptations of his works.
- William Shakespeare, an English playwright and poet of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
noun:
- A playwright of the standing of William Shakespeare.
- Eloquent language, especially English; poetry.
shakespeare frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR
the word shakespeare occurs in english on average 12.9 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.
topics shakespeare 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 shakespeare can be often used in the following areas:
1) leisure and entertainment;
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