how to pronounce curfew

/ˈkɜː.fjuː/

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curfew is pronounced in two syllables

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ɜː

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uː

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

“… the government ordered a curfew to try …”

meaning of curfew

Curfew is a time during which a person is not allowed to be outside after a certain hour.

curfew frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word curfew occurs in english on average 2.5 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 curfew 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 curfew can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;