Pronounceverb
(transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
Pronounceverb
(transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.
Pronounceverb
(intransitive) To pass judgment.
Pronounceverb
(transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
Pronounceverb
(in passive) To sound like.
Pronounceverb
(intransitive) To produce the components of speech.
Pronounceverb
(transitive) To pronounce dead.
Pronounceverb
(transitive) To read aloud.
Pronounceverb
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.
Pronounceverb
To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
Pronounceverb
To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
Pronounceverb
To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
Pronounceverb
To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
Pronounceverb
To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Pronouncenoun
Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
Pronounceverb
speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way;
Pronounceverb
pronounce judgment on;
Rhotacismnoun
An exaggerated use of the sound of the letter R.
Rhotacismnoun
A linguistic phenomenon in which a consonant changes into an R, such as Latin flos becoming florem in the accusative case; rhotacization.
Rhotacismnoun
Inability to pronounce the letter R; derhotacization.
Rhotacismnoun
An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.