how to pronounce boatswain

/ˈbəʊ.sən/

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boatswain is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… master gunner and boatswain took a share …”

meanings of boatswain

noun:

A kind of gull, the jaeger.
The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
The tropicbird.

boatswain frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word boatswain occurs in english on average 0.1 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 boatswain 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 boatswain can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;

3) transport and travel;