how to pronounce breast

/bɹɛst/

audio example by a male speaker

audio example by a female speaker

the above transcription of breast is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

breast is pronounced in one syllable

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video examples of breast pronunciation

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

“… was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 …”

meaning of breast

Breast is a word for the chest area of a female mammal.

breast frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word breast occurs in english on average 16.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics breast 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 breast can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;