Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: english: 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 → 1
Candidate hypernym: anglo-saxon: a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman Conquest → 0
Candidate hypernym: sleep terror disorder: a disorder of sleep characterized by a dream of terrifying dimensions far worse than a typical nightmare; they occur during NREM sleep → 0
Candidate hypernym: cor pulmonale: enlargement of the right ventricle of the heart due to disease of the lungs or of the pulmonary blood vessels → 0
Candidate hypernym: action potential: the local voltage change across the cell wall as a nerve impulse is transmitted → 0
Candidate hypernym: oil meal: ground oil cake → 0
Candidate hypernym: beehive: a hairdo resembling a beehive → 0
Candidate hypernym: mason wasp: solitary wasp that constructs nests of hardened mud or clay for the young → 0
Candidate hypernym: homobasidiomycetes: category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes → 0
Candidate hypernym: putridity: the state of being putrid → 0
Candidate hypernym: qualification: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something → 0