Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Spoken; voiced.
  • adjective Strongly marked; distinct.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Strongly marked or defined; decided.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided. [A Gallicism]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective uttered, articulated.
  • adjective strongly marked.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pronounce.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective strongly marked; easily noticeable

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Examples

  • General Valencia, he who pronounced (but two short months ago!) the high-flown and flattering speech to the president, on receiving the sword of honour, has now _pronounced_ in a very different and much clearer manner.

    Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843

  • I just hope politicians like Michele Bachman make sure they hear the word pronounced before attempting to use it.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Michele Bachmann's Choot-spa Moment Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • I just hope politicians like Michele Bachman make sure they hear the word pronounced before attempting to use it.

    Rabbi Jason Miller: Michele Bachmann's Choot-spa Moment Rabbi Jason Miller 2011

  • ‘Adela,’ repeated Ramón, as if the name pronounced itself.

    A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

  • ‘Adela,’ repeated Ramón, as if the name pronounced itself.

    A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002

  • A good quote surfaced in the comments: A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs.

    Friday! amazon_lil 2009

  • The shock of hearing this title pronounced was equally distributed between Ruth and her husband; but it aroused two absolutely different emotions.

    The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Lord Mansfield whenever a barrister pronounced a Latin word with a false quantity.

    A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866

  • This subsection, roughly south of 45th Avenue and west of Pidgeon Meadow Road and 162nd Street, shares the name pronounced "kiss-EE-na" - though many more recent residents do not recognize Kissena Park as distinct from Flushing as a whole.

    NYT > Home Page By JAKE MOONEY 2012

  • Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP protocols which it uses.

    WN.com - Articles related to State At War With People Of Kashmir: PDP 2010

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  • Or marked.

    August 15, 2008