how to pronounce cold

/kəʊld/

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cold is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… i think in the cold light of day today …”

meaning of cold

Cold means the opposite of warm.

cold frequency in english - A2 level of CEFR

the word cold occurs in english on average 122.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) people, society, and culture;