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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community

UK /kəˈmjuːnɪ.ti/ · US /k(ə)ˈmju.nə.ti/ noun

Forms communities communitie

  1. noun (countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
  2. noun (countable) A residential or religious collective; a commune.
  3. noun (countable, ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
  4. noun (countable, Internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for educational, professional, social, or other purposes; a virtual community.
  5. noun (uncountable) The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
  6. noun (uncountable) A feeling of togetherness or connectedness, common identity or of possessing a similar outlook, perspective and purpose with some group of people. “Volunteering gave me a sense of community.”
  7. noun (countable, obsolete) Common enjoyment or possession; participation. “a community of goods”
  8. noun (uncountable, obsolete) Common character; likeness.

Synonyms

community of interests residential district residential area biotic community

Antonyms

anticommunity noncommunity

Etymology

From Late Middle English communite, borrowed from Old French communité, comunité, comunete (modern French communauté), from Classical Latin commūnitās (“community; public spirit”), from commūn(is) (“common, ordinary; of or for the community, public”) + -itās. By surface analysis, commun(e) + -ity. Displaced native Old English ġemǣnsċipe. Doublet of communitas.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
  2. noun A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests.

Etymology [L. communitas: cf. OF. communité. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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