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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dome

/dəʊm/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms domes doming domed

  1. noun (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere. “geodesic dome”
  2. noun (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover. “a cake dome”
  3. noun (informal) A person's head.
  4. noun (slang) head, oral sex
  5. noun (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice. “pleasure dome”
  6. noun (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc. “steam dome”
  7. noun (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
  8. noun (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
  9. verb (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
  10. verb (transitive, colloquial, slang) To shoot or hit in the head. “That guy just got domed!”
  11. verb (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

cupola brain head mouth music neck Kirk dome up attic bean bonce noodle noggin domed stadium covered stadium

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.

* English occupational surname for a judge, from Old English dēma (“judge”).
* Borrowed from French Dome, a habitational surname.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Döme, a hypocoristic form of the personal name Demeter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A building; a house; an edifice; --used chiefly in poetry.
  2. noun A cupola formed on a large scale.
  3. noun Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [F. dôme, It. duomo, fr. L. domus a house, domus Dei or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. timber. See Timber.]

Etymology [See Doom.]

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