how to pronounce settlement

/ˈsɛt.əl.mənt/

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settlement is pronounced in three syllables

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

“… a bit more settlement further down and …”

meaning of settlement

Settlement is a place where people live or a group of people who live in a place.

settlement frequency in english - B1 level of CEFR

the word settlement occurs in english on average 45.7 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) business and work;