how to pronounce savannah

/səˈvæn.ə/

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savannah is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… and then joins the savannah rica river …”

meanings of savannah

name:

A city, the county seat of Hardin County, Tennessee.
The name of a river and several cities in the United States:.
A ghost town in Los Angeles County, California.
A female given name transferred from the place name.
A city, the county seat of Andrew County, Missouri.
A female given name, from the word savannah.
A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, Queensland, Australia.
A major city, the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia.
A town, a hamlet and census-designated place in Wayne County, New York.
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina.
A village in Ashland County, Ohio.
A census-designated place in Denton County, Texas.
A ghost town in Butler County, Nebraska.

noun:

A Savannah cat.
Alternative spelling of savanna.

savannah frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word savannah occurs in english on average 1.3 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 savannah 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 savannah can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;

3) life, nature, and living environment;