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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immunity

/ɪˈmjuːnəti/ noun

Forms immunities

  1. noun (medicine) Protective resistance against disease. “Some people have better immunity to diseases than others.”
  2. noun (law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services. “Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities.”
  3. noun (law) An exemption from prosecution. “The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron.”
  4. noun (religion) An exemption from penance.
  5. noun (in games and competitions) An exemption given to a player from losing or being withdrawn from play. “After winning the last round the player was granted immunity which allowed him to stay in the game even after receiving the fewest points.”
  6. noun (countable) A resistance to a specific thing. “Superbugs are bacteria that develop an immunity to antibiotics.”

Synonyms

exemption free pass get out of jail free card unsusceptibility resistance granting immunity

Antonyms

susceptibility

Etymology

From Middle English immunite, from Old French immunité, from Latin immūnitās, in the legal sense; for the medical use see immunization. Equivalent to immune + -ity. Displaced native Old English frēols (“privilege, immunity”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
  2. noun Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

Etymology [L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a.]

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

Sanskrit

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