how to pronounce frost

/fɹɒst/

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frost is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… in one night of heavy frost all the …”

meanings of frost

noun:

A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
A disappointment; a cheat.
A shade of white, like that of frost.

verb:

To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
To anger or annoy.
To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
To cover with frost.
To become covered with frost.

name:

A surname.

frost frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word frost occurs in english on average 9.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics frost 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 frost can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;