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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expedition

/ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/ noun, verb

Forms expeditions expeditioning expeditioned

  1. noun A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.
  2. noun (military) An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage.
  3. noun A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose. “a naval expedition”
  4. noun (collective) The group of people making such excursion.
  5. noun The process or activities of performing expediter tasks.
  6. noun (now rare) The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.
  7. noun (obsolete) The act of expediting something; prompt execution.
  8. verb (intransitive) To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel.

Synonyms

military expedition hostile expedition excursion jaunt outing junket pleasure trip sashay dispatch despatch expeditiousness

Etymology

From Middle French expédition, and its source, Latin expeditio.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
  2. noun A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Etymology [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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