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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continental

UK /ˌkɒntɪˈnɛntl̩/ · US /ˌkɑntɪˈnɛntl̩/ adjective, noun

Forms continentals

  1. adjective Of or relating to a continent or continents. “continental drift”
  2. adjective Of the mainland, as opposed to an island offshore. “continental Europe”
  3. adjective Relating to, or characteristic of, continental Europe. “continental breakfast”
  4. adjective (US, historical) Of or relating to the confederated colonies collectively, in the time of the Revolutionary War. “continental money”
  5. noun Someone from the continent.
  6. noun (US, historical) A member of the Continental army.
  7. noun (US, historical) Paper scrip (paper money) issued by the continental congress, largely worthless by the end of the war.
  8. noun (obsolete, by extension) The smallest amount; a whit; a jot. “I don't care a continental!”
  9. adjective Synonym of European (including insular Europe, such as Britain, Ireland)
  10. adjective (historical, US, UK) Pertaining to the colonies of British North America covered by the Continental Congress.
  11. noun Synonym of European (a denizen of Europe)
  12. noun (UK) A denizen of continental Europe
  13. noun (UK) A denizen of the European Union
  14. noun (historical, US, UK) A denizen of the colonies of British North America covered by the Continental Congress.

Synonyms

mainland characteristic of the style of continental Europe' European

Antonyms

antonym(s) of intercontinental

Etymology

From continent + -al.

From Continent + -al.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a continent.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the main land of Europe, in distinction from the adjacent islands, especially England; as, a continental tour; a continental coalition. Macaulay.
  3. noun A soldier in the Continental army, or a piece of the Continental currency. See Continental, a., 3.

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