how to pronounce vaudeville

/ˈvɑːdvɪl/

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vaudeville is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… you were touring vaudeville and you were …”

meanings of vaudeville

noun:

A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.
An entertainment in this style.

vaudeville frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word vaudeville occurs in english on average 3.1 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 vaudeville 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 vaudeville can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;