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say it: KAH-pee-rahyt
copyright is a noun and verb meaning "a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work". It is pronounced /ˈkɑpiˌɹaɪt/ — KAH-pee-rahyt. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for copyright come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.