how to pronounce tame

/tɛɪm/

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tame is pronounced in one syllable

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

“… was for the Reich to tame the Norwegians …”

meaning of tame

Tame means to make less wild or fierce.

tame frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word tame occurs in english on average 3.5 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 tame 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 tame can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;

2) people, society, and culture;