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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western

UK /ˈwɛstən/ · US /ˈwɛstɚn/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms westernmost westerns

  1. adjective Of, facing, situated in, or related to the west. “the western approaches”
  2. adjective Of a wind, blowing from the west; westerly.
  3. adjective Occidental.
  4. noun (film) A film, or some other dramatic work, set in, the historic (c. 1850–1910) American West (west of the Mississippi river) focusing on conflict between whites and Indians, lawmen and outlaws, ranchers and farmers, or industry (railroads, mining) and agriculture.
  5. adjective Of or pertaining to the cultures and traditions of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (the West).
  6. adjective (historical) Of or pertaining to the Western Bloc.
  7. adjective Of or pertaining to the western United States (the West). “He was not the first Northeastern banker to be surprised by what he saw when he stepped off the train into this Western city.”
  8. adjective (South Korea) Originating from Europe.
  9. noun (dated) An inhabitant of a western region or country.
  10. noun A certain genre of fiction (in literature, film, or gaming) dealing with the American Old West; a work in this genre. “If I'm going to watch a Western, it needs to be a good one. I had my fill of the bad ones long ago.”
  11. proper noun A surname.
  12. proper noun A village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.
  13. proper noun A town in Oneida County, New York, United States.

Synonyms

horse opera oater Westerner western sandwich westerly

Antonyms

non-Western eastern

Etymology

From Middle English westerne, from Old English westerne, from Proto-Germanic *westrōnijaz.
By surface analysis, west + -ern.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
  2. adjective Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze. Western Church. See Latin Church, under Latin.

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

Sanskrit

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

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