how to pronounce meander

/miˈæn.dəɹ/

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meander is pronounced in three syllables

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miændəɹ

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

“… rivers and how they meander and Bend …”

meanings of meander

noun:

  1. Synonym of Greek key.
  2. Perplexity.
  3. One of the turns of a winding, crooked, or involved course.
  4. A self-avoiding closed curve which intersects a line a number of times.
  5. Fretwork.
  6. A tortuous or intricate movement.
  7. One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse.

verb:

  1. To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
  2. To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

meander frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word meander occurs in english on average 1 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 meander 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 meander can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

words with pronunciation similar to meander

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