how to pronounce celebrate

/ˈsɛl.ə.bɹɛɪt/

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celebrate is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… a big part how many celebrate all right …”

meaning of celebrate

Celebrate means to hold a festival or party in honor of a special occasion.

celebrate frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word celebrate occurs in english on average 14.1 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 celebrate 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 celebrate can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;

2) people, society, and culture;