how to pronounce defendant

/dɪˈfɛn.dənt/

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defendant is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… forms a judgment the defendant is guilty …”

meaning of defendant

A defendant is someone who is accused of a crime and is being tried in court.

defendant frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word defendant occurs in english on average 33.2 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 defendant 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 defendant can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;