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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pronounce
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strong/broad/thick/pronounced accent (=very noticeable)
▪ She spoke with a strong Scottish accent.
▪ a broad Australian accent
pronounce a word
▪ How do you pronounce this word?
pronounce sb dead (=to say officially that someone is dead)
▪ She was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
dead
▪ Blech was pronounced dead at the scene.
▪ Bonin was pronounced dead four minutes later.
▪ Yorn Chin was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.
▪ His wife was pronounced dead at Stanford Hospital.
▪ His condition later worsened, and he was pronounced dead at 10: 06 a. m. Sunday.
▪ Six of the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
less
▪ The considerably lower activity found in malignant ascites may explain why coagulopathy after shunting is less pronounced in this group of patients.
▪ For motors with a large number of phases the torque reduction at low speeds is less pronounced.
▪ Often the blue is slightly darker too and any facial markings are less pronounced.
▪ However, when the drug was administered orally for 18 weeks its effect was less pronounced.
▪ The patterns of all the estimated effects are the same, but they are less pronounced.
▪ When these barriers are less pronounced, as in the tin industry, the degree of verticality is reduced.
more
▪ The contrast between gas-rich and gas-poor magmas is much more pronounced at the viscous granitic end of the scale.
▪ As the story progresses, the child-like quality of the girls becomes more pronounced.
▪ This is more pronounced in polar liquids than in non-polar liquids.
▪ Those reasons are racial and class differences more pronounced than those in San Francisco and San Jose.
▪ Gradually they become more pronounced, as firmness and flexibility is lost.
▪ The sway of the platform grew more pronounced.
▪ It is interesting to note that the prostaglandin response was more pronounced in linoleic fed rats than in the other groups.
▪ The stop-and-go cycle becomes more pronounced during rush hours.
most
▪ The danger of inconsistency is most pronounced where the draftsman takes parts of his draft from different precedents.
▪ Economists said the bad news was most pronounced, and most disconcerting, in manufacturing.
▪ Periods of westward growth have alternated with periods when lateral development was most pronounced.
▪ In the early stages of abstinence, people are having a lot of difficulties and craving is most pronounced.
▪ What is also clear from Table 7.1 is that these changes were most pronounced after 1979.
▪ Simply determine which structural bad habit is most pronounced and edit for that.
▪ This impact was most pronounced in the relatively new-and therefore receptive-discipline of film studies.
▪ They are hunted mostly at night, when their aroma seems to be most pronounced.
■ NOUN
arrival
▪ Suddenly she collapsed and pronounced dead on arrival at Swindon's Princess Margaret Hospital.
name
▪ Be careful about the way you pronounce names and figures.
▪ Then, with more conviction, she pronounced my name.
▪ I noticed that he pronounced the name B'bbitt.
▪ She practices her opening, which includes several hard-to-pronounce personal names and political affiliations, not to mention satellite locations.
▪ You just think it looks good to be seen with books that nobody can pronounce the name of.
▪ I just wish people would learn how to pronounce his name.
▪ The Pope did not even pronounce the name of the city.
▪ The official pronounced the name with a devastating clarity, as if moved by a painful ringing in his teeth.
sentence
▪ Later, they pronounce a sentence.
▪ Some definitions Accent: the way in which people from different places pronounce words and sentences.
▪ They accepted the right of the vigilantes to bring the charges, to make the decision and to pronounce the sentence.
syllable
▪ And so, Janir, pronounced Ja-NEER: two syllables put together on a park bench on the day of his birth.
word
▪ Speech is not an attempt to pronounce written words.
▪ I cared that Jasper pronounce a word correctly, cared more than it was worth, I realize now.
▪ The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
▪ My weakness is pronouncing words, vocabulary.
▪ Some definitions Accent: the way in which people from different places pronounce words and sentences.
▪ I begin to pronounce the sequence of words and numbers that will prevent her from giving him a piece of her mind.
■ VERB
become
▪ Gradually they become more pronounced, as firmness and flexibility is lost.
▪ The stop-and-go cycle becomes more pronounced during rush hours.
▪ But the yo-yo effect has become even more pronounced.
▪ As the stock reduces during cooking, any undesirable flavors in the water become more pronounced.
▪ Personal habits are becoming more pronounced.
▪ In a post-industrial information economy, the differences become more pronounced and more divisive as the length and necessity of schooling increase.
▪ Osanna of Mantua, the marks became quite pronounced after her death, as verified by her incorrupt hands and feet.
▪ This difference became more pronounced the longer the eggplant had been salted.
call
▪ Guardians of culture were called on to pronounce and diagnose, and they did.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ How do you pronounce your last name?
▪ Some students find it difficult to pronounce the word "the".
▪ Words like 'chicken' and 'cheese' were once pronounced with a 'k'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Andrewes, however, was among those who remained to pronounce the divorce.
▪ Big business dominates manufacturing and is pronounced in the transportation, communications, power utilities, and banking and financial industries.
▪ But when it was over, the commentator pronounced it disappointing.
▪ His wife was pronounced dead at Stanford Hospital.
▪ Insurers pronounced 1998 the worst for climate-related disasters-until 1999 came along.
▪ They came and they went, sometimes before the newsreaders had even learnt how to pronounce their names properly.
▪ Those who drowned in the loch were pronounced guilty.
▪ When she awoke she pronounced herself feeble, and said her bones were stiff in her skin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pronounce

Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. i.

  1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
    --Earle.

  2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. [R.]
    --Dr. H. More.

Pronounce

Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.]
--Milton.

Pronounce

Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pronounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Pronounging.] [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare; pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See Announce.]

  1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

  2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.

    Sternly he pronounced The rigid interdiction.
    --Milton.

  3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.

    Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you.
    --Shak.

  4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

    The God who hallowed thee and blessed, Pronouncing thee all good.
    --Keble.

    Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pronounce

early 14c., "to declare officially;" late 14c., "to speak, utter," from Old French prononcier "declare, speak out, pronounce" (late 13c., Modern French prononcer), from Late Latin pronunciare, from Latin pronuntiare "to proclaim, announce; pronounce, utter," from pro- "forth, out, in public" (see pro-) + nuntiare "announce," from nuntius "messenger" (see nuncio). With reference to the mode of sounding words or languages, it is attested from 1620s (but see pronunciation in this sense from early 15c.). Related: Pronounced; pronouncing.

Wiktionary
pronounce

vb. (context transitive English) To formally declare, officially or ceremoniously.

WordNet
pronounce
  1. v. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say]

  2. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: label, judge]

Usage examples of "pronounce".

Greatness therefore summon Tanca to your judgment-seat, and, after hearing all parties, pronounce a just judgment and one accordant to your character.

The Christians sometimes supplied by their voluntary declaration the want of an accuser, rudely disturbed the public service of paganism, and rushing in crowds round the tribunal of the magistrates, called upon them to pronounce and to inflict the sentence of the law.

The danger of frequent perjury might justify the pronouncing against a false accuser the same penalty which his evidence would have inflicted: the disorders of the times might compel the legislator to punish every homicide with death, and every injury with equal retaliation.

All this is left out of his history, and in nowise alluded to by him, so far as I can remember, save once, when he makes a remark, that upon his principle the Supreme Court were authorized to pronounce a decision that the act called the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Leah dined on pasta Amatriciana, which she pronounced delicious and wondered aloud why her father told her she would never again eat good pasta until they returned to Rome.

Macdonald then presented to him a letter from General Beurnonville, announcing the forfeiture of the Emperor pronounced by the Senate, and the determination of the Allied powers not to treat with Napoleon, or any member of his family.

Haight, whose name is pronounced Hate, just took the antonym of his name.

I pronounce thee twice-damned, heretic and apostate, and condemn thy disbelief to the Fire of Hell!

In the East, where the thought of the apostolical succession of the bishops never received such pronounced expression as in Rome it was just this latter element that was almost exclusively emphasised from the end of the 3rd century.

The sacred screen now before me mounts its head into the dome, and presents an imposing and even an architectonic aspect, but certain details, such as classic mouldings of columns, and a broken entablature, pronounce the edifice to be comparatively modern.

On the 6th of September he said he had before stated in the hand-bill that he held an assignment dated May 20th, 1828, which in reply I pronounced to be false, and referred to the hand-bill for the truth of what I said.

This, together with the heavy swell and the pronounced fall of the barometer, showed that something might be expected.

The names of Bastide, of Castaing, of Papavoine, had hardly been pronounced before they completely absorbed all the public attention, and this had to be satisfied, light had to be thrown on the darkness: society demanded vengeance.

He thanked de Batz warmly, and during the last half-hour, while the misanthropical lover spurned repentant Celimene, he was conscious of a curious sensation of impatience, a tingling of his nerves, a wild, mad longing to hear those full moist lips pronounce his name, and have those large brown eyes throw their half-veiled look into his own.

Many would have concurred in judgment with Madame de Stael, when she pronounced Miss Benger the most interesting woman she had seen during her visit to England.