how to pronounce paisley

/ˈpɛɪz.li/

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paisley is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… first of all dr paisley founded the dup …”

meanings of paisley

name:

A surname.
An unincorporated community in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States.
A locality in the Murray Mallee region, South Australia.
A small city in Lake County, Oregon, United States.
A town, the administrative centre of Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS4863).
A census-designated place in Lake County, Florida, United States.
An unincorporated community and village in Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.

noun:

A soft woollen fabric having this motif.
A motif of a swirling droplet.

adjective:

Made from this fabric, or marked with this design.

paisley frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word paisley occurs in english on average 7 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 paisley 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 paisley can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;