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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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champagne

/ʃæmˈpeɪn/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Also a form of champaign

Forms champagnes champagning champagned Shampine

  1. noun (countable, uncountable) A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.
  2. noun (countable, uncountable, informal) Any sparkling wine made by the méthode champenoise. “I’ve been saving an excellent Brazilian champagne for a special occasion.”
  3. noun (countable, uncountable, informal) Any sparkling white wine.
  4. noun (countable) A glass of champagne.
  5. noun (countable) A very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.
  6. noun (heraldry) (An ordinary occupying) the base of the shield, either flat-topped (like the chief at the top of the shield) or curved (as in a mount or trimount).
  7. adjective Of a very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.
  8. verb (transitive) To ply or treat with champagne.
  9. verb (intransitive) To drink champagne.
  10. proper noun A cultural region and former province of France, the terroir of the wine champagne; now part of Grand Est region.
  11. proper noun A surname from French.

Synonyms

bubbly champ champers fizz shampoo sham poo shammy Champagne-Ardenne

Etymology

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.

Borrowed from French Champagne. Doublet of Campania.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France.

Etymology [F. See Champaign.]

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