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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

vacation

UK /vəˈkeɪ.ʃən/ · US /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ noun, verb

Forms vacations vacationing vacationed

  1. noun An extended trip or journey away from home for rest or pleasure. “We were on vacation in Florida this year.”
  2. noun An extended period of leisure time away from work or school. “Schoolchildren are on vacation this week.”
  3. noun A period during which official activity or business is formally suspended; an official holiday from university, law courts etc.
  4. noun The act of vacating something; moving out. “The Conservative Party’s vacation of the centre ground gave an opportunity to its opponents.”
  5. noun (US, law) The act of making legally void.
  6. noun (general) Freedom from some business or activity.
  7. noun (obsolete) Free time given over to a specific purpose; occupation, activity.
  8. verb (intransitive) To spend or take a vacation. “This year, we’re vacationing in Mexico.”
  9. noun (video games, slang) A user's enforced absence from the Steam video-gaming service and its community, as a result of being banned for cheating.

Synonyms

holiday departure moveout annulment revocation annual leave break day off getaway leave leave of absence pause recess time away time off vac vaca vacay go on holiday go on vacation

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English vacation, vacacion, vacacioun, from Anglo-Norman vacacioun, from Old French vacacion, vacation, from Latin vacātiō. Equivalent to vacate + -ion.

From VAC, initials of the Valve Anti-Cheat software, and vacation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.
  2. noun Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.

Etymology [F., fr. L. vacatio a being free from a duty, service, etc., fr. vacare. See Vacate.]

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

Sanskrit

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