how to pronounce cerulean

/səˈɹuː.li.ən/

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cerulean is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… someone said a house on the cerulean sea …”

meanings of cerulean

noun:

Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Jamides.
A greenish-blue color.

adjective:

Sky-blue.

cerulean frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word cerulean occurs in english on average 0.2 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 cerulean 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 cerulean can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;