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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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hostel

UK /ˈhɒstəl/ · US /ˈhɑstəl/ noun, verb

Forms hostels hosteling hostelling hosteled hostelled

  1. noun An overnight lodging place for travelers, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel. “a rundown hostel”
  2. noun (not US) A temporary refuge for the homeless providing a bed and sometimes food.
  3. noun (obsolete) A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.
  4. noun (obsolete) A public hotel.
  5. noun (South Africa, South Asia) A university or school dormitory, a place of accommodation for students.
  6. verb (intransitive) To stay in a hostel during one's travels.
  7. verb (transitive) To lodge (a person) in a hostel.

Synonyms

hostelry inn lodge auberge youth hostel student lodging

Etymology

From Middle English hostel, from Old French hostel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitale (“hospice”), from Classical Latin hospitalis (“hospitable”) itself from hospes (“host”) + -alis (“-al”). Doublet of hotel and hospital. Not in use from late 17th c. (in the usual sense from mid 16th c.) to 1808, when it was revived by Walter Scott in his poem Marmion (see the quotation).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An inn. [Archaic] Poe.
  2. noun A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.]

Etymology [OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel.]

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