how to pronounce colonel

/ˈkɜː.nəl/

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colonel is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… budget I'm dressed as the colonel and …”

meaning of colonel

Colonel is a military rank.

colonel frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word colonel occurs in english on average 19.6 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 colonel 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 colonel can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;