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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

canton

/ˈkæntən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of Guangdong

Forms cantons cantoning cantoned kanton

  1. noun A division of a political unit.
  2. noun One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
  3. noun An administrative division within a department in France, often being a subdivision of an arrondissement.
  4. noun A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
  5. noun (obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
  6. noun A small community or clan.
  7. noun A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side, the upper-left quadrant of a flag, (the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
  8. noun (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
  9. verb (transitive) To delineate as a separate district.
  10. verb (transitive) To divide into cantons.
  11. verb (transitive) To quarter troops by requisitioning housing from the civilian population.
  12. verb (intransitive) To be allotted such quarters.
  13. noun (obsolete) A song or canto.
  14. proper noun Guangzhou, the capital and largest city of Guangdong, China.
  15. proper noun Guangdong, a province of China.
  16. proper noun (with the, dated) The Pearl River, a river in southern China.
  17. proper noun A hamlet in Ontario, Canada.
  18. proper noun A former settlement in El Dorado County, California.
  19. proper noun A town in Hartford County, Connecticut.
  20. proper noun A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Georgia.

Synonyms

Guangzhou Kuangchou Kwangchow quarter billet

Etymology

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.

From Portuguese Cantão, from Mandarin 廣東 /广东 (Guǎngdōng). Doublet of Guangdong. Compare Spanish Cantón, French Canton, Italian Canton, Russian Кантон (Kanton). Unrelated to English canton.

The town in Oklahoma was named for a nearby cantonment.

From Canna + -ton, literally “St. Canna's town”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A song or canto [Obs.]
  2. noun A small portion; a division; a compartment.
  3. noun A small community or clan.
  4. verb To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.

Etymology [F. canton, augm. of OF. cant edge, corner. See 1st Cant.]

Etymology [Cf. F.cantonner.]

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