how to pronounce sloe

/sləʊ/

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sloe is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… little dribble of sloe gin this bit is …”

meanings of sloe

noun:

The tree Prunus spinosa.
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).

sloe frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word sloe occurs in english on average 0.1 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 sloe 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 sloe can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;