Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

graveyard

/ˈɡɹeɪvˌjɑɹd/ noun

Forms graveyards

noun A tract of land in which the dead are buried.
noun (figuratively, by extension) A final storage place for collections of things that are no longer useful or useable.
noun (collectible card games) The discard pile, in some trading card games.
noun (sports) A team where players are sent when they are not useful, or a team where players become useless if sent there.
noun (attributively) A period very early in the morning in which there is very little activity. “graveyard shift, graveyard slot, graveyard watch”
noun (US, slang) Synonym of suicide (“beverage combining all available flavors at a soda fountain”).

Synonyms

From grave + yard. Compare West Frisian begraafplak (“graveyard”), Dutch begraafplaats (“graveyard”), Norwegian gravplass (“graveyard”).

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