how to pronounce bream

/bɹiːm/

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

“… may fly fishing for bream choke welcome …”

meanings of bream

noun:

A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera.
A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
A species in that genus, Abramis brama.

verb:

To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.

bream frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word bream occurs in english on average 4.3 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 bream 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 bream can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;