how to pronounce aubergine

/ˈəʊ.bə.ʒiːn/

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aubergine is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… we call this aubergine but this is quite …”

meanings of aubergine

noun:

A dark purple colour; eggplant.
An Asian plant, Solanum melongena, cultivated for its edible purple, green, or white ovoid fruit.
The fruit of this plant, eaten as a vegetable.

aubergine frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word aubergine occurs in english on average 0.5 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 aubergine 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 aubergine can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;