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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clarion

/ˈklæɹ.ɪ.ən/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms clarions clarioning clarioned

  1. noun (music, historical or poetic) A medieval brass instrument chiefly used as a battle signal; related to the trumpet, it had a narrow, straight pipe and a high-pitched, piercing sound. “The clarion’s call to action has been heard.”
  2. noun (poetic) The sound of a clarion (sense 1), or any sound resembling the loud, high-pitched note of a clarion.
  3. noun (music) An organ stop consisting of pipes with reeds giving a high-pitched note like that of a clarion (sense 1).
  4. noun (music) The middle register of the clarinet.
  5. noun (heraldry) A charge thought to represent a type of wind instrument, a keyboard instrument like a spinet, or perhaps a rest used by a knight to support a lance during jousting.
  6. adjective Of a sound, a voice, a message, etc.: brilliantly clear. “her clarion top notes”
  7. verb To announce or herald (something) using a clarion (noun sense 1).
  8. verb (figuratively) To announce or herald (something) clearly, especially so as to stir or unite people.
  9. verb (also figuratively) Of a thing: to cause (a place) to echo with a sound like that of a clarion.
  10. verb (intransitive) To sound a clarion; also, to make a high-pitched, piercing sound like that of a clarion.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Bureau County, Illinois, United States.
  12. proper noun A city, the county seat of Wright County, Iowa, United States.
  13. proper noun A borough, the county seat of Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  14. proper noun A ghost town in Sanpete County, Utah, United States.
  15. proper noun A river in Pennsylvania, a tributary of the Allegheny River.

Synonyms

clarichord rest sufflue

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English clarion, clarioun (“trumpet with a narrow tube and a shrill sound, clarion; clarion player”) [and other forms], from Old French claron, clarïon (“clarion”) [and other forms], from Medieval Latin clāriōn, clario, clārōn (“clarion; trumpet”), from Latin clārus (“audible; clear, distinct, loud; (visually) bright, clear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, summon; to cry”).
The adjective is from an attributive use of the noun.

From Middle English clariounen (“of a horn or trumpet: to blow, sound”), from clarioun (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs). Later uses may also be derived directly from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.

Etymology [OE. clarioun, OF. clarion, F. clairon, LL. clario, claro; so called from its clear tone, fr. L. clarus clear. See Clear.]

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