pronouncer

Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal.

pro·nounce

(prə-nouns′)

v. pro·nounced, pro·nounc·ing, pro·nounc·es

v.tr.

a. To use the organs of speech to make heard (a word or speech sound); utter.

b. To say clearly, correctly, or in a given manner: learning to pronounce French; pronounced my name wrong.

2. To represent (a word) in phonetic symbols.

3. To declare officially or formally: pronounced the legislature to be in session; was pronounced dead on arrival.

v.intr.

1. To say words; speak.

2. To declare one's opinion; make a pronouncement: pronouncing on the issues of the day.

[Middle English pronouncen, from Old French prononcier, from Latin prōnūntiāre : prō-, forth; see pro-¹ + nūntiāre, to announce (from nūntius, messenger; see neu- in Indo-European roots).]

pro·nounce′a·ble adj.

pro·nounc′er n.

Mentioned in ?

Pronunciator

References in periodicals archive ?

Moira is the show's pronouncer while Sue hosts proceedings.

New Sky show could spell big break for Joe; BRUM COMIC TO BE BACKSTAGE WITH PARENTS

The character of Gabriel is a good example; as the pronouncer of God's Will, he commands a certain level of authority amongst the supernatural.

The End of the World Is Rye

Basketball enthusiast Venkatachalam spelled words like poblacion, caudillismo and nixtamal before official bee pronouncer Jacques Bailly broke the news to him that Shivashankar had correctly spelled scherenschnitte, the German-derived word for artistic paper cutting.

Two Indian-Americans children win US Spelling Bee in historic tie

Second-place winner Torah Smith, a home-schooled 9-year-old from Fitchburg, charmed the audience and judges with her humor onstage, even engaging in a playful banter with bee pronouncer and local newspaper editor Charles St.

Ace speller returns to national bee in DC

But this show does provide an instructive elaboration of his evolution from overmatched grad-school pictorialist to august pronouncer of the colossally architectonic diktats for which he was to become famous.

Richard Serra: DAVID ZWIRNER

And so should Jacques Bailly, the Bee pronouncer who every contestant starts out by fearing and ends falling in love with.

Desi Bees

supplies Kavya Shivashankar, pronouncer at the recently concluded semifinals of the Spelling Bee.

A spelling bee in her bonnet

More than a decade and a half on, and a reasonably proficient pronouncer, I now find myself in fits when my mother (a relative newcomer, of my own London heritage) attempts to say the word 'Llandaff'.

women'sown

Judge Posner seems to view his role entirely as a dispute resolver in the adversarial tradition, rather than also as a law pronouncer in the common law tradition.

The limits of advocacy

But Polonius will still be next to Aesop and Poor Richard's Almanac as the most often quoted pronouncer of platitudes.