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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colony

UK /ˈkɒl.ə.ni/ · US /ˈkɔl.ə.ni/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms colonies colonying colonied

  1. noun A geographical area under the remote control of a country; especially to extract resources or exploit labor from that area. “Much of the eastern United States was formerly a British colony; other areas were French, Spanish, Dutch, or Swedish colonies.”
  2. noun A group of people who settle an area and maintain ties to their country of origin. “a colony of British expats in Spain”
  3. noun A group of people with similar interests, occupations, or characteristics, living in a particular area; the area such people occupy. “a nudist colony; the statue was put up right in the middle of the artist colony”
  4. noun (biology) A group of organisms of same or different species living together in close association. “ant colony; coral colony”
  5. noun (India) An apartment complex or neighborhood. “Our colony is quite small, but each apartment is large.”
  6. noun A local group of Beaver Scouts.
  7. noun A potential new chapter of a fraternity or sorority awaiting official recognition from their headquarters.
  8. verb (obsolete, rare, transitive) To colonize.
  9. proper noun A town in Cullman County, Arkansas.
  10. proper noun A township in Adams County, Iowa.
  11. proper noun A township in Delaware County, Iowa.
  12. proper noun A minor city in Anderson County, Kansas.
  13. proper noun A former township in Greeley County, Kansas.
  14. proper noun A neighbourhood in south-west Lexington, Kentucky.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community and inactive township in Knox County, Missouri.
  16. proper noun A town in Washita County, Oklahoma.

Synonyms

settlement dependency

Etymology

From Middle English colane, colonye, from Latin colōnia (“colony”), from colōnus (“farmer; colonist”), from colō (“till, cultivate, worship”), from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and Köln.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote province or country, and remaining subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state; as, the British colonies in America.
  2. noun The district or country colonized; a settlement.

Etymology [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. Culture.]

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