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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don

UK /dɒn/ · US /dɑn/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms dons donning donned the Don

  1. noun (UK) A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
  2. noun (Canada) An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
  3. noun A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American.
  4. noun A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
  5. noun (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.
  6. verb (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire. “To don one's clothes.”
  7. proper noun A diminutive of the male given names Donald, Donovan, and Gordon.
  8. proper noun A river, the fifth-longest in Europe, in Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia, flowing 1160 miles to the Sea of Azov.
  9. proper noun A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, United Kingdom, flowing 62 miles to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  10. proper noun A river in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on which Doncaster is situated.
  11. proper noun A minor river in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, which joins the Tyne at Jarrow.
  12. proper noun A river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, named after the River Don in Yorkshire.
  13. proper noun A locality in the City of Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. noun (sciences) dissolved organic nitrogen

Synonyms

donny put on clothe dight enrobe accouter address apparel array attire beclothe garment dress equip invest robe slip on vest Don River River Don preceptor father wear get into assume

Antonyms

doff

Etymology

From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Italian don, Sicilian don, Spanish don; from domus (“house”). Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.

From Middle English don (“to put on”), from Old English dōn on; equivalent to do + on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma.

Borrowed from Russian and Ukrainian Дон (Don). Known in Ancient Greece and Rome as Latin Tanais, Ancient Greek Τάναϊς (Tánaïs).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Sir; Mr; Signior; --a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
  2. noun A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] "The great dons of wit." Dryden.
  3. verb To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

Etymology [Sp. don; akin to Pg. dom, It. donno; fr. L. dominus master. See Dame, and cf. Domine, Dominie, Domino, Dan, Dom.]

Etymology [Do + on; -- opposed to doff. See Do, v. t., 7.]

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