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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canonize

UK /ˈkænənaɪz/ · US /ˈkænəˌnaɪz/ verb

Forms canonizes canonizing canonized canonise

  1. verb (chiefly Roman Catholicism) To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints. “Thomas Becket was canonized in 1173.”
  2. verb (figurative) To regard as a saint; to glorify, to exalt to the highest honour.
  3. verb (Christianity) To formally declare (a piece of religious writing) to be part of the biblical canon.
  4. verb (by extension) To regard (an artistic or written work or its creator) as one of a group that are representative of a particular field.
  5. verb (chiefly Christianity) Especially of a church: to give official approval to; to authorize, to sanction.

Synonyms

saint canonise

Antonyms

uncanonize

Etymology

From Late Middle English canonizen (“to declare as a saint; to appoint to an ecclesiastical office”), from Old French canonisier (modern French canoniser (“to canonize”)), or from its etymon Medieval Latin, Late Latin canōnizāre, the present active infinitive of Latin canōnizō (“to recognize as a saint, canonize; to declare as authoritative or official”), from Latin canōn (“measuring line; (figurative) precept, rule, canon; authorized catalogue”) + -izō (suffix forming verbs). The English word is analysable as canon (“general principle, rule; authoritative group of works; catalogue of saints canonized in the Roman Catholic Church”) + -ize.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
  2. verb To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.

Etymology [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See Canon.]

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