how to pronounce shade

/ʃɛɪd/

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shade is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… um of some shade um winning the party's …”

meaning of shade

Shade is a type of shadow.

shade frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word shade occurs in english on average 14.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

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

1) leisure and entertainment;