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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bouquet

/buːˈkeɪ/ noun, proper noun

Forms bouquets

  1. noun (collective) An arrangement or bunch of cut flowers; a nosegay. “For my birthday I received two bouquets.”
  2. noun A decoratively arranged bunch of something. “Each table was adorned with a bouquet of giant balloons.”
  3. noun The scent of a particular wine. “This Bordeaux has an interesting bouquet.”
  4. noun The middle note of a perfume. “The remarkable flower bouquet lasts for hours until it dissolves into a sweet vanilla smell.”
  5. noun A compliment or expression of praise.
  6. noun (mathematics) A bouquet of circles.
  7. noun (card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.
  8. noun (cartomancy) The ninth Lenormand card, sometimes called Flowers instead.
  9. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

arrangement corsage posy nosegay fragrance fragrancy redolence sweetness

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French bouquet, from Old French bochet, from bois, from Early Medieval Latin boscus (“grove”), borrowed from Frankish *busk, from Proto-Germanic *buskaz. Doublet of bosket.

Borrowed from French Bouquet.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
  2. noun A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

Etymology [F. bouquet bunch, bunch of flowers, trees, feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. boscus. See Bush thicket, and cf. Bosket, Busket.]

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

Sanskrit

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