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P p - noun pronunciation Rare. an act or instance of declaring publicly; pronouncement: It was but the latest pronunciation of the political double-standard uttered in the course of this scandal. Synonyms: declaration, assertion, statement; announcement, affirmation; proclamation, promulgation, dissemination. 2
- noun pronunciation the act or result of producing the sounds of speech, including articulation, stress, and intonation, often with reference to some standard of correctness or acceptability: They are arguing about the pronunciation of “forte” again. His pronunciation retains charming traces of his early years in Ireland. 1
- noun pronunciation an accepted standard of the sound and stress patterns of a syllable, word, phrase, etc.: He said the pronunciation of “curl” is [kurl] not [koil] . 1
- noun pronunciation the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language: the pronunciation of French. 1
- noun pronunciation a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc.: The pronunciation of “pheasant” is [fez-uh nt] . 1
- noun pronunciation Obsolete. elocution or delivery. elegant speech; oratory. an act or instance of speaking. 1
- noun Technical meaning of pronunciation In this dictionary slashes (/../) bracket phonetic pronunciations of words not found in a standard English dictionary. The notation, and many of the pronunciations, were adapted from the Hacker's Jargon File. Syllables are separated by dash or followed single quote or back quote. Single quote means the preceding syllable is stressed (louder), back quote follows a syllable with intermediate stress (slightly louder), otherwise all syllables are equally stressed. Consonants are pronounced as in English but note: ch soft, as in "church" g hard, as in "got" gh aspirated g+h of "bughouse" or "ragheap" j voiced, as in "judge" kh guttural of "loch" or "l'chaim" s unvoiced, as in "pass" zh as "s" in "pleasure" Uppercase letters are pronounced as their English letter names; thus (for example) /H-L-L/ is equivalent to /aych el el/. /Z/ is pronounced /zee/ in the US and /zed/ in the UK (elsewhere?). Vowels are represented as follows: The above table reflects mainly distinctions found in standard American English (that is, the neutral dialect spoken by TV network announcers and typical of educated speech in the Upper Midwest, Chicago, Minneapolis/St.Paul and Philadelphia). However, we separate /o/ from /ah/, which tend to merge in standard American. This may help readers accustomed to accents resembling British Received Pronunciation. Entries with a pronunciation of `//' are written-only. 1
- variable noun pronunciation The pronunciation of a word or language is the way in which it is pronounced. 0
- noun pronunciation the act, instance, or manner of pronouncing sounds 0
- noun pronunciation the supposedly correct manner of pronouncing sounds in a given language 0
- noun pronunciation a phonetic transcription of a word 0
- noun pronunciation the act or manner of pronouncing syllables, words, and phrases with regard to the production of sounds and the placing of stress, intonation, etc. 0
- noun pronunciation any of the accepted or standard ways of pronouncing a word, etc. 0
- noun pronunciation the transcription in symbols of such a way of pronouncing a word, etc. 0