Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iː	see	ɪ	sit	e / ɛ	bed	æ	cat
ɑː	father	ɒ	hot (UK)	ɔː	law	ʊ	put
uː	too	ʌ	cup	ɜː	bird	ə	about
eɪ	day	aɪ	my	ɔɪ	boy	aʊ	now
əʊ / oʊ	go (UK / US)	ɪə	near	eə	hair	ʊə	tour

Consonants that look unusual

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

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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cemetery

UK /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɹi/ · US /ˈsɛm.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/ noun

Forms cemeteries cœmeterium cœmetery cemetary cementery

noun A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.

Synonyms

boneyard Boot Hill burial ground camposanto churchyard crypt God's acre gravestead graveyard kirkyard lichyard marble orchard memorial park urupa burial site burying ground necropolis

Etymology

From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).

Webster’s 1913

noun A place or ground set apart for the burial of the dead; a graveyard; a churchyard; a necropolis.

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

Sanskrit

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

कटसी kaṭasī a cemetery.
पितृसद्मन् pitṛ-sadman the abode of the Pitṛs, a cemetery.
अनुव्राज्य anu-vrājya to be followed, as by the relatives of a dead person to the cemetery.
शवसान śavasāna powerful, very mighty, (Sāy. = bala-vat, ati-bala ); ( as ), m. a traveller; a road; ( am ), n. a cemetery.
श्मशान śmaśāna ‘a place of repose for bodies, place for destroying bodies,’ a cemetery, sepulchre, burning or burial-ground…
श्मशानालय śmaśānālaya ‘cemetery-house,’ a cemetery.
श्मशानशूल śmaśāna-śūla an impaling stake in a cemetery.
पितृकानन pitṛ-kānana ‘grove of ancestors,’ a cemetery.

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