Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

cuisine

/kwɪˈziːn/ noun

Forms cuisines

noun (countable, uncountable) A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin. “French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.”
noun (countable, uncountable) The food prepared using such style.
noun (uncountable) Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.
noun (countable, dated) A kitchen or cooking department.

Synonyms

Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). Doublet of kitchen.

Etymology [F., fr. L. coquina kitchen, fr. coquere to cook. See Kitchen.]

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