how to pronounce asylum

/əˈsaɪ.ləm/

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asylum is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of asylum in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… in Pyongyang asking for asylum so that …”

meaning of asylum

Asylum is a place where people can go to escape persecution.

asylum frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word asylum occurs in english on average 9.2 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 asylum 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 asylum can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;