how to pronounce opium

/ˈəʊ.pi.əm/

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opium is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… from the opium poppy and it's incredibly …”

meanings of opium

noun:

A yellow-brown, addictive narcotic drug obtained from the dried juice of unripe pods of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and containing alkaloids such as morphine, codeine, and papaverine.
Anything that numbs or stupefies.

opium frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word opium occurs in english on average 2.2 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.