how to pronounce legitimacy
/ləˈdʒɪt.ə.mə.si/
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legitimacy is pronounced in five syllables
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An example use of legitimacy in a speech by a native speaker of british english:
“… been forced to ride legitimacy to Chris …”
meanings of legitimacy
noun:
- The quality of being legitimate or valid; validity.
- Lawfulness of birth or origin; directness of descent as affecting the royal succession.
legitimacy frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR
the word legitimacy occurs in english on average 7.3 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 legitimacy 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 legitimacy can be often used in the following areas:
1) people, society, and culture;
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