Definition of Pronounce

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Pronounce

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.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.

To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.

To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.

To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.

Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.

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Pronounce Quotations

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
Benjamin Franklin

President Bush has been silent on Schwarzenegger. Of course, he can't pronounce Schwarzenegger.
David Letterman

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim Elliot

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.
George Santayana

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
Aeschylus

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
Aeschylus

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
Simone Weil

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
Henry James

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh

Pronounce Translations

pronounce in Danish is udtale
pronounce in Dutch is uitspreken
pronounce in Italian is espresso
pronounce in Latin is denuntio
pronounce in Portuguese is pronuncie
pronounce in Spanish is pronunciar
pronounce in Swedish is avkunna, uttala

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