ORTHOEPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does orthoepy mean? 

• ORTHOEPY (noun)
  The noun ORTHOEPY has 2 senses:

1. the way a word or a language is customarily spoken

2. a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the 'correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to 'correct' orthography

  Familiarity information: ORTHOEPY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORTHOEPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The way a word or a language is customarily spoken

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

orthoepy; pronunciation

Context example:

that is the correct pronunciation

Hypernyms ("orthoepy" is a kind of...):

language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication ((language) communication by word of mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "orthoepy"):

Received Pronunciation (the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the 'correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to 'correct' orthography

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("orthoepy" is a kind of...):

phonemics; phonology (the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes)