received pronunciation
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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 (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | english, english language, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.communication) |
| hypernym | : | orthoepy, pronunciation, |
| definition | : | the way a word or a language is customarily spoken (noun.communication) |
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