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Meaning of 'pronounce'
Meaning of 'pronounce' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Pronounce 
[ n.]
- Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [ n.]2. Pronounce [ v. i.]
- To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to
pronounce faultlessly. [ v. i.]- To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
3. Pronounce [ v. t.]
- 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. [ v. t.]- To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
- To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
- To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
Meaning of 'pronounce' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. pronounce [ v]
[ v]Meaning (1):
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
- speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
Example in sentence:
- Can the child sound out this complicated word?;
- I cannot say `zip wire';
- She pronounces French words in a funny way
Meaning (2):
- pronounce judgment on
- pronounce judgment on
Example in sentence:
- They labeled him unfit to work here
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