pronounce
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Verb (2)pronounced, pronouncing
- 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?”Synonyms: articulateenouncesound outenunciatesayMore general talk, speakMore specific stress, voice, drawl, sibilate, round, subvocalize, vocalize, trill, click, palatalize +13 moreInvolves talk, speak
- pronounce judgment on“They labeled him unfit to work here”Synonyms: labeljudgeMore general declare, adjudgeMore specific rule, convict, acquit, qualify, intonate, tout, disqualify
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Verb to sound out
- Spanish
- pronunciar
- French
- prononcer
- German
- aussprechen
- Italian
- pronunciare
- Portuguese
- pronunciar
- Turkish
- telaffuz etmek
- Russian
- произноси́ть proiznosítʹ
- Arabic
- نَطَقَ naṭaqa
- Chinese
- 发音 fāyīn
- Japanese
- 発音する hatsuon suru
25 more languages
- Dutch
- uitspreken
- Polish
- wymawiać
- Swedish
- uttala
- Greek
- προφέρω proféro
- Korean
- 발음하다 bareumhada
- Vietnamese
- phát âm
- Hungarian
- kimond
- Portuguese (PT)
- pronunciar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 發音 fāyīn
- Albanian
- shqiptoj
- Catalan
- pronunciar
- Czech
- vyslovovat
- Danish
- udtale
- Esperanto
- elparoli
- Estonian
- hääldama
- Finnish
- lausua
- Latvian
- izrunāt
- Lithuanian
- ištarti
- Norwegian
- uttala
- Romanian
- pronunța
- Scottish Gaelic
- fuaimnich
- Serbo-Croatian
- izgovoriti
- Slovenian
- izgovoriti
- Walloon
- prononcî
- Yiddish
- אַרויסרעדן aroysredn
Verb to declare officially
- French
- déclarer
- German
- verkünden
- Italian
- dichiarare
- Portuguese
- declarar
- Russian
- объявля́ть obʺjavljátʹ
- Dutch
- verkondigen
- Swedish
- förklara
- Greek
- ονομάζω onomázo
- Hungarian
- nyilvánít
- Portuguese (PT)
- declarar
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— John 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.— William Shakespeare
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.— John Keble
Synonyms: To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle, John
2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence. rare Dr. Henry More
Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. obsolete John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54