how to pronounce sepoy

/ˈsiː.pɔɪ/

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sepoy is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… about the holocaust it's it's sepoy and …”

meanings of sepoy

noun:

A native soldier of the East Indies, employed in the service of a European colonial power, notably the British India army (first under the British-chartered East India Company, later in the crown colony), but also France and Portugal.

sepoy frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sepoy occurs in english on average 0.6 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 sepoy 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 sepoy can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;