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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cohort

UK /ˈkəʊ̯ˌhɔːt/ · US /ˈkoʊ̯ˌhɔɹt/ noun, verb

Forms cohorts cohorting cohorted

  1. noun A group of people supporting the same thing or person.
  2. noun (statistics) A demographic grouping of people, especially those in a defined age group, or having a common characteristic. “The 18–24 cohort shows a sharp increase in automobile fatalities over the proximate age groupings.”
  3. noun (historical, Ancient Rome, military) Any division of a Roman legion, normally of about 500 or 600 men (equalling about six centuries). “Three cohorts of men were assigned to the region.”
  4. noun An accomplice; abettor; associate. “He was able to plea down his sentence by revealing the names of three of his cohorts, as well as the source of the information.”
  5. noun Any band or body of warriors.
  6. noun (taxonomy) A natural group of orders of organisms, less comprehensive than a class.
  7. noun A colleague.
  8. noun A set of individuals in a program, especially when compared to previous sets of individuals within the same program. “The students in my cohort for my organic chemistry class this year are not up to snuff. Last year's cohort scored much higher averages on the mid-term.”
  9. verb To associate with such a group.
  10. noun (fandom slang) A fan of American author Colleen Hoover (born 1979).

Synonyms

age group age bracket

Etymology

From Latin cohors (stem cohort-); borrowed into Old English as coorta, but reintroduced into Middle English as cōhort and chōors via Old French cohorte. Doublet of court.

Blend of CoHo (“Colleen Hoover”) + cohort.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.
  2. noun Any band or body of warriors.

Etymology [L. cohors, prop. an inclosure: cf. F. cohorte. See Court, n.]

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