how to pronounce isthmus

/ˈɪsθ.məs/

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isthmus is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… colonies and the darién isthmus but all …”

meanings of isthmus

noun:

Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.

isthmus frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word isthmus 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 isthmus 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 isthmus can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) life, nature, and living environment;