Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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universe

UK /ˈjuːnɪˌvɜːs/ · US /ˈjunəˌvɝs/ noun, proper noun

Forms universes the universe

  1. noun The sum of everything that exists in the cosmos. “Do you think that the universe was created by a life force or a deity?”
  2. noun An entity similar to our universe; one component of a larger entity known as the multiverse.
  3. noun Everything under consideration. “In all this universe of possibilities, there is only one feasible option.”
  4. noun (mathematics) The set of all things considered.
  5. noun (statistics, psychometrics) The set of all admissible observations.
  6. noun (marketing, economics) A sample taken from the population.
  7. noun An imaginary collection of worlds; the general imaginary world within which a work of fiction takes place, broader than its immediate setting. “The universe in this comic book series is richly imagined.”
  8. noun (literature, films) A collection of stories with characters and settings that typically share a continuity but are less interrelated than those of sequels or prequels.
  9. proper noun Our universe, the sum of everything that exists in the cosmos, including time and space itself. “Powerful telescopes look far back into the distant reaches of the Universe.”

Synonyms

cosmos existence creation world macrocosm population universe of discourse

Etymology

From Middle English universe, from Old French univers, from Latin universum (“all things, as a whole, the universe”), neuter of universus (“all together, whole, entire, collective, general, literally turned or combined into one”), from uni-, combining form of unus (“one”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of vertō (“to turn”). Analyzable as uni- + -verse through backformation of -verse.

From Middle English, directly or via Old French univers, from Latin universum. See universe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the mundus of the Latins; the world; creation.

Etymology [L. universum, from universus universal; unus one + vertere, versum, to turn, that is, turned into one, combined into one whole; cf. F. univers. See One, and Verse.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “universe”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “universe” (best matches first).

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