how to pronounce cruise

/kɹuːz/

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the above transcription of cruise 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.

cruise is pronounced in one syllable

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uː

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

“… whack it in to cruise and it's …”

meaning of cruise

Cruise means a journey taken for pleasure.

cruise frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word cruise occurs in english on average 9.5 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 cruise 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 cruise can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;

2) transport and travel;