how to pronounce publican

/ˈpʌb.lɪ.kən/

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publican is pronounced in three syllables

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meanings of publican

noun:

The landlord of a public house.
A tax collector in Ancient Rome.

publican frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word publican occurs in english on average 1.2 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.

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

1) business and work;

2) people, society, and culture;