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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

interior

UK /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/ · US /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms interiors interiour

  1. adjective Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner. “the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball”
  2. adjective Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland. “the interior parts of a region or country”
  3. noun The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure. “The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.”
  4. noun The inside regions of a country, continent, etc., distanced from the borders or coasts. “Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.”
  5. noun (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
  6. proper noun A town and village in South Dakota, United States.
  7. proper noun (with the) A region of British Columbia, Canada.

Synonyms

backcountry upcountry hinterland British Columbia Interior BC Interior B.C. Interior B. C. Interior Interior of British Columbia Interior of BC Interior of B.C. Interior of B. C. inside Department of the Interior Interior Department DoI home internal national inner midland

Antonyms

exterior

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner; --opposed to exterior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.
  2. adjective Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as, the interior parts of a region or country. Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides, within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting them; --called also internal angle.
  3. noun That which is within; the internal or inner part of a thing; the inside.
  4. noun The inland part of a country, state, or kingdom. Department of the Interior, that department of the government of the United States which has charge of pensions, patents, public lands and surveys, the Indians, education, etc.; that department of the government of a country which is specially charged with the internal affairs of that country; the home department.

Etymology [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf. F. intérieur. See Inter-, and cf. Intimate.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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