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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veteran

[ˈvɛ.t̬ə.ɹən] noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms veterans

  1. noun A person with long experience of a particular activity. “The company's new hires were nervous, but the veterans were self-assured because, as one summarized it, "this isn't our first rodeo."”
  2. noun A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service. “We honor veterans and senior citizens with a ten percent discount.”
  3. noun (figurative) A group, animal, etc. with long experience of a particular activity. “Their mules were clearly veterans. They seemed to know what to do even better than the teenage farmhand who was driving the team.”
  4. adjective Having had long experience, practice, or service.
  5. adjective Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
  6. proper noun A village in Special Area No. 4, eastern Alberta, Canada.
  7. proper noun A ghost town in White Pine County, Nevada.
  8. proper noun A town in Chemung County, New York.
  9. proper noun A hamlet in Ulster County, New York.
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Goshen County, Wyoming.
  11. proper noun A rural locality in the Gympie Region, Queensland, Australia.

Synonyms

old hand old-timer warhorse veteran soldier vet ex-serviceman oldtimer old stager stager seasoned

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French vétéran, from Latin veterānus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
  2. noun One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. Ensigns that pierced the foe's remotest lines, The hardy veteran with tears resigns. Addison.

Etymology [L. veteranus, from vetus, veteris, old; akin to Gr. vatsara. See Wether.]

Etymology [L. veteranus (sc. miles): cf. F. vétéran.]

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