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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holiday

UK /ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ/ · US /ˈhɑləˌdeɪ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms holidays holidaying holidayed holyday Holliday

  1. noun A day on which a religious event or secular celebration is traditionally observed. “Today is a Wiccan holiday!”
  2. noun A day declared free from work by the state or government.
  3. noun (chiefly UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural. “How much holiday are you allowed?”
  4. noun (chiefly UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation). “I want to take a French course this summer holiday.”
  5. noun (finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made. “a mortgage payment holiday”
  6. noun A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.
  7. verb (intransitive) To take a period of time away from work or study.
  8. verb (UK, intransitive) To spend a period of time in recreational travel.
  9. proper noun A surname.
  10. proper noun (US) The holiday season or Christmas season, especially when paired with a year.
  11. proper noun A census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States, named after Holiday Drive, a road.
  12. proper noun A community in the township of Zorra, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada.

Synonyms

holy day feast day festival bank holiday national holiday day off off day leave time off vacation annual leave break getaway leave of absence pause recess time away vac vaca vacay

Etymology

From Middle English halyday, holyday, halidei, haliȝdei, from Old English hāliġdæġ (“holy day, Sabbath”), equivalent to holy + day. Compare West Frisian hjeldei (“holiday”), Danish helligdag (“holiday”), Norwegian helligdag (“holiday”), Swedish helgdag (“holiday, feast”).

English surname, variant of Holliday.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
  2. noun A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Milton.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay. Shak.
  4. adjective Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

Etymology [Holy + day.]

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

Sanskrit

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