how to pronounce deacon

/ˈdiː.kən/

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deacon is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… wife of a deacon her husband exhumed her …”

meaning of deacon

A deacon is a person who is ordained to serve in a particular ministry.

deacon frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word deacon occurs in english on average 2.7 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 deacon 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 deacon can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;