how to pronounce garnish

/ˈɡɑː.nɪʃ/

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garnish is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… considered too young to garnish and so …”

meanings of garnish

noun:

  1. Clothes; garments, especially when showy or decorative.
  2. Pewter vessels in general.
  3. A fee; specifically, in English jails, formerly an unauthorized fee demanded from a newcomer by the older prisoners.
  4. Fetters.
  5. Cash.
  6. A set of dishes, often pewter, containing a dozen pieces of several types.
  7. Something set round or upon a dish as an embellishment.
  8. Something added for embellishment.

verb:

  1. To fit with fetters; to fetter.
  2. To furnish; to supply.
  3. To ornament with something placed around it.
  4. To warn by garnishment; to give notice to.
  5. To have (money) set aside by court order (particularly for the payment of alleged debts); to garnishee.
  6. To decorate with ornaments; to adorn; to embellish.

garnish frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word garnish occurs in english on average 2.1 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 garnish 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 garnish can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

words with pronunciation similar to garnish

tarnishvarnishgarnetbanishfinishvanishpunishfinnishgarlicgarner

words that rhyme with garnish

varnishtarnish

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