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Meaning of 'pronounce' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Pronounce [ n.]
- Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
2 . Pronounce [ v. i.]
- To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
- 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.
- 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]
Meaning (1):
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • They labeled him unfit to work here

Nearby Words:

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