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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excursion

UK /ɪkˈskɜː.ʃən/ · US /ɛkˈskɝ.ʒən/ noun, verb

Forms excursions excursioning excursioned

  1. noun A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way. “While driving home I took an excursion and saw some deer.”
  2. noun (Australia) A field trip.
  3. noun A wandering from the main subject: a digression.
  4. noun (aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually during takeoff, landing, or taxi.
  5. noun (phonetics) A deviation in pitch, for example in the syllables of enthusiastic speech.
  6. noun Temporary deviation from a regular course or pattern “After an unsuccessful excursion into banking, I've returned to public life.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To go on a recreational trip or excursion.

Synonyms

journey trip jaunt digression excursus outing junket pleasure trip expedition sashay

Antonyms

incursion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin excursiō (“a running out, an inroad, invasion, a setting out, beginning of a speech”), from excurrere (“to run out”), from ex (“out”) + currere (“to run”). By surface analysis, excurse + -ion. Compare excursus.

Webster’s 1913

  1. A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
  2. A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

Etymology [L. excursio: cf. F. excursion. See Excurrent.]

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

Sanskrit

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