RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Received Pronunciation mean? 

• RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION (noun)
  The noun RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Received Pronunciation" is a kind of...):

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

orthoepy; pronunciation (the way a word or a language is customarily spoken)