how to pronounce elegance

/ˈɛl.ə.ɡəns/

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elegance is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… feminine elegance as opposed to silly …”

meaning of elegance

Elegance means the quality of being graceful and refined in appearance or behavior.

elegance frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

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

1) communication, information, and media;