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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college

UK /ˈkɒl.ɪdʒ/ · US /ˈkɑ.lɪdʒ/ noun, proper noun

Forms colleges colledg colledge

  1. noun A specialized division of a university. “College of Engineering”
  2. noun (chiefly US) An institution of higher education teaching undergraduates. “She's still in college”
  3. noun (Ireland, Philippines) A university.
  4. noun (Canada) A postsecondary institution that offers vocational training and/or associate's degrees.
  5. noun (chiefly UK) A non-specialized, semi-autonomous division of a university, with its own faculty, departments, library, etc. “Pembroke College, Cambridge”
  6. noun (UK) An institution of further education at an intermediate level; sixth form.
  7. noun (UK) An institution for adult education at a basic or intermediate level (teaching those of any age).
  8. noun (UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa) A high school or secondary school. “Eton College”
  9. proper noun A census-designated place in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States.
  10. proper noun A township in Knox County, Ohio, United States, named for Kenyon College.
  11. proper noun A township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States; it borders onto the municipality of State College, Pennsylvania.

Synonyms

department society association academy faculty school

Etymology

From Middle English college, from Middle French college, from Old French college, from Latin collēgium. Doublet of collegium.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits, or having common duties and interests, and sometimes, by charter, peculiar rights and privileges; as, a college of heralds; a college of electors; a college of bishops.
  2. noun A society of scholars or friends of learning, incorporated for study or instruction, esp. in the higher branches of knowledge; as, the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and many American colleges.

Etymology [F. collège, L. collegium, fr. collega colleague. See Colleague.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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