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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divorce

UK /dɪˈvɔːs/ · US /dɪˈvoɹs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms divorces divorcing divorced

  1. noun The legal dissolution of a marriage. “Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.”
  2. noun A separation of connected things. “The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.”
  3. noun (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
  4. noun (obsolete) That which separates.
  5. verb (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people. “A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.”
  6. verb (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way. “Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce. “Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.”
  8. verb (transitive) To separate something that was connected. “The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.”
  9. noun A divorced man.
  10. proper noun The 65th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Synonyms

divorcement partition separation severance split up disassociate disjoint dissociate disunite separate

Antonyms

marriage marry

Etymology

Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.

Borrowed from French divorcé.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun (a) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony." (b) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband --divorce a mensa et toro (or thoro), "from bed board."
  2. noun The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
  3. verb To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
  4. verb To separate or disunite; to sunder.

Etymology [F. divorce, L. divortium, fr. divortere, divertere, to turn different ways, to separate. See Divert.]

Etymology [Cf. F. divorcer. See Divorce, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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