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Definition of pronunciation
Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of pronunciation is as below...
Pronunciation
(n.) 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..
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Pronunciatory
::
Pronunciatory
(a.) Of or
pertaining
to
pronunciation;
that
pronounces.
Nasal
::
Nasal (a.)
Having
a
quality
imparted
by means of the nose; and
specifically,
made by
lowering
the soft
palate,
in some cases with
closure
of the oral
passage,
the voice thus
issuing
(wholly
or
partially)
through
the nose, as in the
consonants
m, n, ng (see Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 20, 208);
characterized
by
resonance
in the nasal
passage;
as, a nasal
vowel;
a nasal
utterance..
Enunciation
::
Enunciation
(n.) Mode of
utterance
or
pronunciation,
especially
as
regards
fullness
and
distinctness
or
articulation;
as, to speak with a clear or
impressive
enunciation..
Fricative
::
Fricative
(n.) A
fricative
consonant
letter
or
sound.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
//
197-206,
etc..
En-
::
En- () A
prefix
signifying
in or into, used in many
English
words,
chiefly
those
borrowed
from the
French.
Some
English
words are
written
indifferently
with en-or in-. For ease of
pronunciation
it is
commonly
changed
to
em-before
p, b, and m, as in
employ,
embody,
emmew.
It is
sometimes
used to give a
causal
force,
as in
enable,
enfeeble,
to cause to be, or to make, able, or
feeble;
and
sometimes
merely
gives an
intensive
force,
as in
enchasten.
See In-..
Whisper
::
Whisper
(n.) A low, soft,
sibilant
voice or
utterance,
which can be heard only by those near at hand; voice or
utterance
that
employs
only
breath
sound
without
tone,
friction
against
the edges of the vocal cords and
arytenoid
cartilages
taking
the place of the
vibration
of the cords that
produces
tone;
sometimes,
in a
limited
sense,
the sound
produced
by such
friction
as
distinguished
from
breath
sound made by
friction
against
parts of the
mouth.
See
Voice,
n., 2, and Guide to
Pronunciation,
//
Y
::
Y () Y, the
twenty-fifth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
at the
beginning
of a word or
syllable,
except
when a
prefix
(see Y-), is
usually
a
fricative
vocal
consonant;
as a
prefix,
and
usually
in the
middle
or at the end of a
syllable,
it is a
vowel.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 145,
178-9,
272..
Itacism
::
Itacism
(n.)
Pronunciation
of / (eta) as the
modern
Greeks
pronounce
it, that is, like e in the
English
word be. This was the
pronunciation
advocated
by
Reu/hlin
and his
followers,
in
opposition
to the
etacism
of
Erasmus.
See
Etacism..
Glide
::
Glide (n.) A
transitional
sound in
speech
which is
produced
by the
changing
of the mouth
organs
from one
definite
position
to
another,
and with
gradual
change
in the most
frequent
cases;
as in
passing
from the
begining
to the end of a
regular
diphthong,
or from vowel to
consonant
or
consonant
to vowel in a
syllable,
or from one
component
to the other of a
double
or
diphthongal
consonant
(see Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and
others),
the
vanish
(or brief final
element)
Q
::
Q () the
seventeenth
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
has but one sound (that of k), and is
always
followed
by u, the two
letters
together
being
sounded
like kw,
except
in some words in which the u is
silent.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
/ 249. Q is not found in
Anglo-Saxon,
cw being used
instead
of qu; as in cwic,
quick;
cwen,
queen.
The name (k/) is from the
French
ku, which is from the Latin name of the same
letter;
its form is from the
Latin,
which
derived
it,
through
a Greek
alphabet,
from th
N
::
N () the
fourteenth
letter
of
English
alphabet,
is a vocal
consonent,
and, in
allusion
to its mode of
formation,
is
called
the
dentinasal
or
linguanasal
consonent.
Its
commoner
sound is that heard in ran, done; but when
immediately
followed
in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in
single,
sink,
conquer),
it
usually
represents
the same sound as the
digraph
ng in sing,
bring,
etc. This is a
simple
but
related
sound,
and is
called
the
gutturo-nasal
consonent.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
Low
::
Low
(superl.)
Made, as a
vowel,
with a low
position
of part of the
tongue
in
relation
to the
palate;
as, / (/m), /
(all).
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 5, 10, 11..
Pronounce
::
Pronounce
(v. i.) To give a
pronunciation;
to
articulate;
as, to
pronounce
faultlessly..
Wharling
::
Wharling
(n.) A
guttural
pronunciation
of the
letter
r; a burr. See Burr, n., 6..
Mid
::
Mid
(superl.)
Made with a
somewhat
elevated
position
of some
certain
part of the
tongue,
in
relation
to the
palate;
midway
between
the high and the low; -- said of
certain
vowel
sounds;
as, a
(ale),
/
(/ll),
/
(/ld).
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
// 10, 11..
G
::
G () G is the
seventh
letter
of the
English
alphabet,
and a vocal
consonant.
It has two
sounds;
one
simple,
as in gave, go, gull; the other
compound
(like that of j), as in gem, gin,
dingy.
See Guide to
Pronunciation,
//
231-6,
155, 176, 178, 179, 196, 211, 246..
Psellism
::
Psellism
(n.)
Indistinct
pronunciation;
stammering.
Short
::
Short
(adv.)
Not
prolonged,
or
relatively
less
prolonged,
in
utterance;
--
opposed
to long, and
applied
to
vowels
or to
syllables.
In
English,
the long and short of the same
letter
are not, in most
cases,
the long and short of the same
sound;
thus, the i in ill is the short
sound,
not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See
Quantity,
and Guide to
Pronunciation,
//22, 30..
Stress
::
Stress
(n.) Force of
utterance
expended
upon words or
syllables.
Stress
is in
English
the chief
element
in
accent
and is one of the most
important
in
emphasis.
See Guide to
pronunciation,
//
31-35..
Sawder
::
Sawder
(n.) A
corrupt
spelling
and
pronunciation
of
solder.
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