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pronuntiation

pronuntiation is the obsolete form of pronunciation.

Meaning of pronunciation

Noun

pronunciation (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciations)

  1. (countable) The way in which a word, phrase, letter, character etc. is made to sound when spoken.
    • What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?
  2. (uncountable) The characteristic sounds of a particular language, accent, or individual's speech.
    • His Italian pronunciation is terrible.
  3. (countable) The act of making a pronouncement or uttering a vocable.
    • The second part is the sentence, which is the judge's pronunciation upon a cause depending between two in controversy.1831, Thomas Oughton, James Thomas Law, Forms of Ecclesiastical Law, page 62

Forms of pronuntiation

pluralpronuntiations

Origin of pronuntiation

From Latin prōnūntiātiō.

Questions about pronuntiation

What is pronuntiation the obsolete form of?
Pronuntiation is the obsolete form of pronunciation.

Words near pronuntiation in the dictionary

  1. pronunciator
  2. pronunciators
  3. pronunciatory
  4. pronuncing
  5. pronuntiatio
  6. pronuntiation
  7. pronuntiations
  8. Prony
  9. Prony brake
  10. Prony brakes
  11. pronymph

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pronuntiation (page history and authors); pronunciation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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