how to pronounce heirloom

/ˈɛə.luːm/

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heirloom is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… be handed down as an heirloom to the …”

meaning of heirloom

Heirloom is a piece of furniture or other item handed down from one generation to the next.

heirloom frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word heirloom occurs in english on average 0.5 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 heirloom 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 heirloom can be often used in the following areas:

1) leisure and entertainment;