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say it: di-LIV-ur-ee
delivery is a noun meaning "the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)". It is pronounced /dɪˈlɪvɚi/ — di-LIV-ur-ee. It carries 7 recorded senses.
the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
“his reluctant delivery of bad news”
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
“his manner of speaking was quite abrupt”
“her speech was barren of southernisms”
“I detected a slight accent in his speech”
the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
recovery or preservation from loss or danger
“work is the deliverance of mankind”
“a surgeon's job is the saving of lives”
the act of delivering a child
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 delivery 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.