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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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cinema

UK /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/ · US /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/ noun

Forms cinemas

  1. noun (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house. “The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.”
  2. noun (film, uncountable) Films collectively. “Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.”
  3. noun (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry. “In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].”
  4. noun (film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography. “Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].”
  5. noun (Internet slang, uncountable) A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.
  6. noun (by extension, humorous) Any media or event that is exemplary. “That game was absolute cinema.”

Synonyms

pictures moviehouse movies movie theater movie theatre seventh art kino film celluloid movie house picture palace

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “cinema”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details