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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adoption

UK /əˈdɒp.ʃən/ · US /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ noun

Forms adoptions

  1. noun The act of adopting.
  2. noun The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if they were one's own child. “A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.”
  3. noun An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum. “the adoption of people into hospitals or monasteries”
  4. noun The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance. “the adoption of opinions”
  5. noun The act of accepting and putting into effect or practice (a method, proposal, technique, etc.) “Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.”
  6. noun (computing) The transfer from an old system to another (usually better) system.
  7. noun (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
  8. noun (chess, slang) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent. “Infuriated by his adoption yesterday, the chess master has resolved to study twice as long and twice as hard.”

Synonyms

acceptance acceptation espousal borrowing

Etymology

Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
  2. noun Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

Etymology [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.]

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

Sanskrit

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