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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PRONUNCIA'TION, 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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the manner in which someone utters a word; "they are always correcting my pronunciation"
2: the way a word or a language is customarily spoken; "the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners"; "that is the correct pronunciation" [syn: pronunciation, orthoepy]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English pronunciacion, from Anglo-French pronunciation, from Latin pronuntiation-, pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare Date: 15th century the act or manner of pronouncing something • pronunciational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the way in which a word is pronounced, esp. with reference to a standard. 2 the act or an instance of pronouncing. 3 a person's way of pronouncing words etc. Etymology: ME f. OF prononciation or L pronuntiatio (as PRONOUNCE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pronunciation Pro*nun`ci*a"tion (?; 277), n. [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.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. --J. Q. Adams.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(pronunciations) The pronunciation of a word or language is the way in which it is pronounced. She gave the word its French pronunciation... You're going to have to forgive my pronunciation. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Utterance, enunciation, articulation. 2. Delivery.