how to pronounce protest

/ˈpɹəʊ.tɛst/

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protest is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… San Diego in several protest marches and …”

meaning of protest

Protest means to express strong disapproval of something.

protest frequency in english - B2 level of CEFR

the word protest occurs in english on average 35.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;