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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highway

/ˈhɑjwɛj/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms highways highwaying highwayed hwy. hwy hi'way hi-way hiway hi way

  1. noun A main public road, especially a multi-lane, high-speed thoroughfare.
  2. noun (law, rail transport) Any public road.
  3. noun (figurative) A way; a path that leads to a certain destiny. “You're on a highway to greatness.”
  4. noun (archaic) A road that is major (more heavily traveled and thus more important than a byway), higher than the surrounding land, has drainage ditches at the sides, or has any combination of those traits.
  5. noun (computing) Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
  6. verb To travel on a highway
  7. proper noun A western suburb of Maidenhead, Windsor and Maidenhead borough, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU8680).
  8. proper noun A neighbourhood of Redruth, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW7143).
  9. proper noun A neighbourhood in Stoke sub Hamdon parish, South Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST4717).
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Hilmarton parish, north-central Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0474).
  11. proper noun A sitio in the barangay of Poblacion, Tuba, Benguet, Philippines.
  12. proper noun A sitio in the barangay of San Carlos, Rosario, Batangas, Philippines.
  13. proper noun A sitio in the barangay of San Jose, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
  14. proper noun A sitio in the barangay of Anoling, General Nakar, Quezon, Philippines.

Synonyms

bus Poblacion main road

Etymology

From Middle English heiȝwai, heiȝwei, from Old English hēahweġ (“main road, highway”), corresponding to high + way. Compare highgate, high street, high road.
Cognate with Scots heaway, heway, hieway, hichway, heichway (“highway”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A road or way open to the use of the public; a main road or thoroughfare.

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

Sanskrit

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

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