how to pronounce tollbooth

/ˈtoʊlˌbuθ/

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tollbooth is pronounced in two syllables

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

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meanings of tollbooth

noun:

Alternative spelling of toll booth.
(In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.

tollbooth frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word tollbooth occurs in english on average 0.2 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 tollbooth 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 tollbooth can be often used in the following areas:

1) transport and travel;