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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eternity

UK /ɪˈtɜːnɪti/ · US /əˈtɜɹnəti/ noun

Forms eternities æternitie æternity

  1. noun (uncountable) Existence without end, infinite time.
  2. noun (uncountable, philosophy, theology) Existence outside of time.
  3. noun (countable) A period of time which extends infinitely far into the future.
  4. noun (metaphysics) The remainder of time that elapses after death.
  5. noun (informal, hyperbolic) A comparatively long time. “It's been an eternity since we last saw each other.”

Synonyms

all time atemporality evermore forever foreverhood afterlife an age eternal now extratemporality perpetuity ages centuries donkey's years hours a lifetime years yonks alwaysness eternality foreverness infinity timelessness timeless existence

Antonyms

sempiternity moment

Etymology

From Middle English eternyte, from Old French eternité, from Latin aeternitās. Displaced native Old English ēcnes.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
  2. noun Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Etymology [F. éternité, L. aeternitas, fr. aeternus. See Etern.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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