English-Thai Dictionary

pronunciation

N การ ออกเสียง  articulation utterance kan-ook-siang

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRONUNCIATION

n.[L. pronunciatio.] 1. The act of uttering with articulation; utterance; as the pronunciation of syllables or words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.
2. The mode of uttering words or sentences; particularly, the art or manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; now called delivery.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PRONUNCIATION

Pro *nun `ci *a "tion, n. Etym: [F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce. ]

 

1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.

 

2. The mode of uttering words or sentences.

 

3. (Rhet.)

 

Defn: The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pronunciation

pro nun ci a tion |prəˌnənsēˈāSHən prəˌnənsiˈeɪʃən | ▶noun the way in which a word is pronounced: spelling does not determine pronunciation | similar pronunciations are heard in Brooklyn. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin pronuntiatio (n- ), from the verb pronuntiare (see pronounce ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

pronunciation

pronunciation |prənʌnsɪˈeɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the way in which a word is pronounced: spelling does not determine pronunciation | [ count noun ] : similar pronunciations are heard in Ulster. ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin pronuntiatio (n- ), from the verb pronuntiare (see pronounce ). usage: The word pronunciation is often pronounced, by analogy with pronounce, as if the second syllable rhymed with bounce. This is not correct in standard English: the standard pronunciation has the second syllable rhyming with dunce. The correct spelling is pronunciation, never pronounciation.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pronunciation

pronunciation noun the pronunciation of difficult words: accent, manner of speaking, speech, diction, delivery, elocution, intonation; articulation, enunciation, voicing, vocalization, sounding.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pronunciation

pronunciation noun her Merseyside pronunciation | the dictionary includes a guide to the pronunciation of difficult and foreign words: accent, manner of speaking, speech pattern, speech, diction, delivery, elocution, intonation, modulation; articulation, enunciation, saying, uttering, utterance, sounding, voicing, vocalization; rare orthoepy. WORD LINKS pronunciation orthoepy study of correct pronunciation Word Links sections supply words that are related to the headword but do not normally appear in a thesaurus because they are not actual synonyms.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pronunciation

pro nun ci a tion /prənʌ̀nsiéɪʃ (ə )n /→pronounce 名詞 複 ～s /-z /C U 発音 , (個人 言語の )発音の仕方 .