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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Victorian

UK /vɪkˈtɔː.ɹɪ.ən/ · US /vɪkˈtɔ.ɹi.ən/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms Victorians

  1. adjective Of or relating to the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901, or that period.
  2. adjective In a situation of poverty and social injustice; Dickensian.
  3. adjective (architecture) Of the style of architecture or furnishings of that period.
  4. adjective (figuratively) Of or displaying the (supposed) ideals or standards of morality of that period; conservative; also, old-fashioned, out-of-date.
  5. noun A person born in or living in the Victorian period, or exhibiting characteristics of that period.
  6. noun An item of furniture from that period.
  7. noun (chiefly US, architecture) A house built in the Victorian architectural style.
  8. adjective Of, from or relating to the state of Victoria, Australia. “Up to 26 properties are believed lost in Victorian bushfires.”
  9. noun A native or inhabitant of the state of Victoria, Australia.
  10. adjective (Canada) Of, from or relating to the city of Victoria, capital of British Columbia, Canada.
  11. noun (Canada) A native or inhabitant of the city of Victoria, capital of British Columbia, Canada.
  12. proper noun A surname.
  13. proper noun A male given name from Latin, of rare usage.

Synonyms

priggish prim prissy prudish puritanical square-toed straitlaced strait-laced straightlaced straight-laced tight-laced

Etymology

From Victoria + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns), from the name of Queen Victoria (1819–1901), monarch of the United Kingdom.

From Victoria (“state of Australia in the southeastern part of the continent”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); the state was named after Queen Victoria when it was established in 1851.

From Victoria (“capital of British Columbia, Canada”) + -an (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); incorporated as a city in 1862, the settlement which preceded the city was named Fort Victoria after Queen Victoria in 1843.

An Americanized form of Spanish Victoriano originating in Los Angeles, a given name from Latin Victōriānus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the reign of Queen Victoria of England; as, the Victorian poets. Victorian period. See Dionysian period, under Dyonysian.

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