how to pronounce burns

/ˈbɝnz/

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burns is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of burns in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to be that everything burns the State …”

meanings of burns

name:

A town in Alleghany County, New York.
A city in Marion County, Kansas.
Robert Burns, Scottish writer.
A place in the United States.
A surname.
A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
Plural of Burn.
An unincorporated community in Eagle County, Colorado.
A town in Laramie County, Wyoming.
A city, the county seat of Harney County, Oregon.
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
A town in Dickson County, Tennessee.

verb:

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of burn.

noun:

Plural of burn.

burns frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word burns occurs in english on average 10.9 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 burns 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 burns can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) leisure and entertainment;