how to pronounce encomium

/ɪnˈkəʊ.mi.əm/

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encomium is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of encomium

noun:

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.
A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
A general category of oratory.
A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.

encomium frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word encomium occurs in english on average 0.2 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 encomium 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 encomium can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;

3) people, society, and culture;