noun pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation.
2. pronounce ·vi to make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
3. pronounce ·vi to give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly.
4. pronounce ·vt to declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
5. pronounce ·vt to utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
6. pronounce ·vt to speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
7. pronounce ·vt 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.