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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exemplary

/ɪɡˈzɛmpləɹi/ adjective, noun

Forms exemplaries examplary

  1. adjective Deserving honour, respect and admiration.
  2. adjective Of such high quality that it should serve as an example to be imitated; ideal, perfect. “Her behaviour was always exemplary.”
  3. adjective Serving as a warning; monitory. “exemplary justice, exemplary punishment, exemplary damages”
  4. adjective Providing an example or illustration.
  5. noun (obsolete) An example, or typical instance.
  6. noun (obsolete) A copy of a book or a piece of writing.

Synonyms

admonitory exemplar paradigm model emblematic typic cautionary monitory warning

Etymology

From Middle English exemplarie, from Latin exemplāris (“exemplary; a copy, facsimile”), from exemplum (“an example; a sample; a copy or transcript”). By surface analysis, example + -ary. Doublet of exemplar. First use appears before 1450.

From Middle English exemplarie, from Latin exemplārium. By surface analysis, example + -ary. First use appears before 1425.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Serving as a pattern; deserving to be proposed for imitation; commendable; as, an exemplary person; exemplary conduct.
  2. adjective Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.
  3. noun An exemplar; also, a copy of a book or writing. [Obs.] Donne.

Etymology [L. exemplaris, fr. exemplar: cf. F. exemplaire. See Exemplar.]

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

Sanskrit

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