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RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION
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I. (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)
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