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noun
  1. 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.
  2. an accepted standard of the sound and stress patterns of a syllable, word, phrase, etc.: He said the pronunciation of “curl” is [kurl], /kɜrl/, not [koil]. /kɔɪl/.
  3. the conventional patterns of treatment of the sounds of a language: the pronunciation of French.
  4. a phonetic transcription of a given word, sound, etc.: The pronunciation of “pheasant” is [fez-uhnt]. /ˈfɛz ənt/.
  5. 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.
  6. Obsolete.
    • elocution or delivery.
    • elegant speech; oratory.
    • an act or instance of speaking.
noun
  1. the act, instance, or manner of pronouncing sounds
  2. the supposedly correct manner of pronouncing sounds in a given language
  3. a phonetic transcription of a word
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