how to pronounce terrain

/təˈɹɛɪn/

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terrain is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… do help avoid such terrain these women …”

meanings of terrain

noun:

A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
An area of land or the particular features of it.

terrain frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word terrain occurs in english on average 6.2 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 terrain 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 terrain can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) life, nature, and living environment;