how to pronounce lump

/lʌmp/

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lump is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… when they visited that lump of rock out …”

meaning of lump

Lump is a small, round mass of something.

lump frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word lump occurs in english on average 11.9 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 lump 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 lump can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;