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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gown

/ˈɡaʊ̯n/ noun, verb

Forms gowns gowning gowned

  1. noun A loose, flowing upper garment.
  2. noun A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  3. noun The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  4. noun The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
  5. noun (by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace. “In the perennial town versus gown battles, townies win some violent battles, but the collegians are winning the war.”
  6. noun A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  7. noun Any sort of dress or garb.
  8. noun The robe worn by a surgeon.
  9. verb To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

Synonyms

nightgown nightie night-robe nightdress surgical gown scrubs robe

Etymology

From Middle English gowne, from Anglo-Norman goune, gune (“fur-trimmed coat, pelisse”), from Old French goune, from Late Latin gunna (“leather garment, a fur”). Cognate with Manx gooyn, Irish gúna.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A loose, flowing upper garment; especially: (a) The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
  2. noun Any sort of dress or garb.

Etymology [OE. goune, prob. from W. gwn gown, loose robe, akin to Ir. gunn, Gael. gùn; cf. OF. gone, prob. of the same origin.]

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

Sanskrit

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