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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alliance

/əˈlaɪ.əns/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms alliances alliancing allianced alliaunce

  1. noun (uncountable) The state of being allied.
  2. noun (countable) The act of allying or uniting.
  3. noun (countable) A union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league. “matrimonial alliances”
  4. noun (dated or India) Marriage.
  5. noun (countable) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  6. noun (with the definite article) The persons or parties allied.
  7. noun (taxonomy, dated) Synonym of cohort (“group of orders of organisms”).
  8. verb (obsolete) To connect or unite by alliance; to ally.
  9. proper noun A former unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States, now incorporated into the city of Arcata.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Madison County, Indiana, United States.
  11. proper noun A city, the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, United States.
  12. proper noun A town in Pamlico County, North Carolina, United States.
  13. proper noun A city situated mostly in Stark County, Ohio, United States.
  14. proper noun A master planned community in Denton County and Tarrant County, Texas, United States.
  15. proper noun A village in central Alberta, Canada.
  16. proper noun A town in Suriname, on the banks of the Suriname River.

Synonyms

union connection affinity allyship coalition league confederation team axis cohort bond alignment alinement

Etymology

From Middle English alliaunce, from Old French aliance (French alliance). Equivalent to ally + -ance. Compare with Doric Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”). See also al-.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
  2. noun Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
  3. verb To connect by alliance; to ally. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. aliaunce, OF. aliance, F. alliance, fr. OF. alier, F. allier. See Ally, and cf. LL. alligantia.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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