how to pronounce material

/məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/

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material is pronounced in four syllables

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

“… clear all of this material from the …”

meaning of material

Material means the tangible substance that something is made of.

material frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word material occurs in english on average 135.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics material 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 material can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;