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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

conspiracy

/kənˈspɪɹəsi/ noun, verb

Forms conspiracies conspiracying conspiracied

  1. noun An agreement or arrangement between multiple parties to do something harmful, immoral or subversive; an instance of collusion.
  2. noun (law) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
  3. noun (loosely) A secret agreement to do something.
  4. noun (loosely) An agreement to work together to bring something about; an act or instance of conspiring.
  5. noun (by ellipsis, proscribed) A conspiracy theory; a hypothesis alleging conspiracy.
  6. noun (collective, rare) A group of various animals.
  7. noun A flock of crows or ravens.
  8. noun A group of lemurs.
  9. verb (rare, proscribed) To conspire.

Synonyms

murder unkindness confederacy cabal

Etymology

From Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman conspiracie, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, from conspire + -acy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A combination of men for an evil purpose; as agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
  2. noun A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.

Etymology [See Conspiration.]

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

Sanskrit

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