pronunciation
The formal or informal way in which a word is made to sound when spoken.
Example
“What is the pronunciation of "hiccough"?”
Other meanings
The way in which the words of a language are made to sound when speaking.
“His Italian pronunciation is terrible.”
The act of pronouncing or uttering a vocable.
Related words
- nonpronunciation
- overpronunciation
- repronunciation
- Old National Pronunciation
- pronunciation dictionary
- pronunciation respelling
- pronunciational
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "prōnūntiātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pronunciation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.