how to pronounce oyster

/ˈɔɪstɚ/

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oyster is pronounced in two syllables

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

“… you have a lot of my oyster in it - I …”

meaning of oyster

Oyster is a type of bivalve mollusk, some types of which are used in meals.

oyster frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word oyster occurs in english on average 5.1 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 oyster 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 oyster can be often used in the following areas:

1) food and health;

2) life, nature, and living environment;