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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pronunciation \Pro*nun`ci*a"tion\ (?; 277), n. [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce.]
The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
The mode of uttering words or sentences.
(Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery.
--J. Q. Adams.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "mode in which a word is pronounced," from Middle French prononciation and directly from Latin pronuntiationem (nominative pronuntiatio) "act of speaking, utterance, delivery," also "proclamation, public declaration," noun of action from past participle stem of pronuntiare "announce" (see pronounce).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken. 2 (context uncountable English) The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking. 3 (context countable English) The act of pronouncing or uttering something.
WordNet
n. the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always correcting my pronunciation"
the way a word or a language is customarily spoken; "the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that is the correct pronunciation" [syn: orthoepy]
Wikipedia
Pronunciation is the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect.
A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the duration of the cultural exposure of their childhood, the location of their current residence, speech or voice disorders, their ethnic group, their social class, or their education.
Usage examples of "pronunciation".
Ransaran was riddled with irregular verb forms, homonyms, synonyms, irregular spellings, nonstandard pronunciations, and appropriations from every other major language.
CHAPTER 6 Carlyle House has been the property of the Dukes of Cumberland since it was built, although it is frequently and erroneously supposed that it is a part of the heritage of the Marquisate of Carlisle by those who do not recognize that the names are similar in pronunciation but not in spelling.
See Clara Conant Gilson, in the article just cited: He had a few striking peculiarities of pronunciation, one or two of which cling to me with great pertinacity even now.
Its earlier pronunciation as the Indians recorded it is reflected in the Sanskrit Bhota, and the name of the modern state of Bhutan is related to the same word.
I have read about Brooklyn I was lead to believe that Brooklynites had a special pronunciation of English all their own.
Were it not that the Chaldaean historian Berossos writes the name Xisuthros, we should have no clue to its Semitic pronunciation.
In a weak rhyme either the vowels are the same but the consonants are only similar, or vowels are altered to create a rhyme that would not exist using normal spoken pronunciation.
Their language is poorer than the Guarani spoken by the Paraguayans, and the pronunciation both more nasal and guttural.
In sum, the ambiguity of the script rested on the fact that when several signs were united into one ideogrammatic group to express something, the pronunciation of the whole could not be derived from the pronunciation of the constituent single signs.
Corinna was reading in her clear voice, although haltingly at times, as she paused to ask Telyn the pronunciation of some words in a papyrus book.
You will kindly allow me to tell you that the pronunciation of that word 'scevra' with a v, and not 'sceura' with a u, because it is a contraction of 'sceverra'.
We never say a thing to please him: here it is a bad pronunciation, there a tone not sufficiently passionate, sometimes one speaks too softly, sometimes too loudly.
It is the first time he realizes that Joelle's voice crisp and rich and oddly empty, her accent just barely Southern and with a strange and it turns out Kentuckian lapse in the pronunciation of all apicals except s is familiar in a faraway way that both makes it familiar and yet lets Gately be sure he's never once met her before, Out There.
The question of aspiration There is one uncertainty regarding the precise pronunciation the unvoiced stops c (= k), t, p: In English as well as some other languages, these sounds, when occurring before a vowel at the beginning of a word, are normally aspirated.
Besides final ë, we shall use the diaeresis to clarify the pronunciation of the combinations ea, eo and oe (sc.