pronounceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American, Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈnaʊns/
• 韻: -aʊns

動詞

pronounce (三人称単数 現在形 pronounces, 現在分詞 pronouncing, 過去形および過去分詞形 pronounced)

1. (transitive) To declare formally, officially or ceremoniously.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

   I hereby pronounce you man and wife.

2. (transitive) To declare authoritatively, or as a formal expert opinion.

   The doctor pronounced them legally dead.

   • 1972, Ian Anderson (lyrics), “Thick As A Brick”, performed by Jethro Tull:

     See there! A son is born
     And we pronounce him fit to fight
     There are blackheads on his shoulders
     And he pees himself in the night.

   • 2020 December 16, Paul Clifton, “Investigation begins after death at Eastleigh depot”, in Rail, page 12:

     Paramedics attended, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

   1. (transitive) To pronounce dead.
      • 2015, April 30, Carol H. Allan, David R. Fowler (medical examiners), Freddie Gray autopsy: excerpt from the report, published in The Baltimore Sun, June 24, 2015

        Despite resuscitative efforts, Mr. Gray was pronounced on 4/19/2015.

3. (intransitive) To pass judgment.

   The judge had pronounced often before, but never in front of such a crowd.

4. (transitive) To sound out (a word または phrase); to articulate.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, page 182:

     They spell it "Vinci" and pronounce it "Vinchy". Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

   • 2007, Don DeLillo, Underworld: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner Classics, →ISBN, page 543:

     I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.

   1. (in passive) To sound like.

      The Icelandic double l in Eyjafjallajökull is pronounced tl.

      • 1997 January 31, Hutzler, Charles, “Leader’s office hunt a lesson in arcana and parking problems”, in AP News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2023-04-19‎^[2]:

        The Chinese believe feng shui, pronounced fung shway, can help blunt the ill effects to health and wealth brought on, for example, by the inauspicious jut of an adjacent building or hill.

      • 2012, Wilkinson, Endymion, “Introduction”, in Chinese History: A New Manual‎^[3], Third, revised edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

        The DPRK (Joseon Minjujui Inmin Konghuaguk 朝鮮民主主義人民共和國) is read in Chinese as Chaoxian minzhu zhuyi renmin gonghe guo, and its capital, Pyeonyang, is pronounced Pingrang 平壤.

5. (intransitive) To produce the components of speech.

   Actors must be able to pronounce perfectly or deliberately disabled.

6. (transitive) To read aloud.

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