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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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dame

/deɪm/ noun, verb

Forms dames daming damed

  1. noun (UK) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. “Dame Edith Sitwell”
  2. noun (UK) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
  3. noun (UK, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
  4. noun (US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
  5. noun (archaic) A lady, a woman.
  6. noun The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
  7. noun (chess, slang) A queen.
  8. verb To make a dame.
  9. noun (UK) The titular prefix given to a female knight

Synonyms

woman doll wench skirt chick bird madam ma'am lady gentlewoman

Etymology

From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a womam in authority; especially, a lady.
  2. noun The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

Etymology [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See Tame, and cf. Dam mother, Dan, Danger, Dangeon, Dungeon, Dominie, Don, n., Duenna.]

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