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

leader

UK /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/ · US /ˈli.dɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms leaders

  1. noun Any person who leads or directs.
  2. noun One who goes first. “Follow the leader.”
  3. noun One having authority to direct. “We elected her team leader.”
  4. noun One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
  5. noun A person or organization that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc. “The company is the leader in home remodeling in the county.”
  6. noun (music) A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
  7. noun (music, UK) The first violin in a symphony orchestra; the concertmaster.
  8. noun The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
  9. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a person who led a horse and cart.
  10. proper noun A river in north Canterbury, New Zealand, which joins the (Canterbury) Waiau.
  11. proper noun A town surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Happyland No. 231, western Saskatchewan, Canada, originally named Prussia.
  12. proper noun A populated place in Adams County, Colorado, United States.

Synonyms

chief chieftain commander captain conductor alpha pack leader guide driver drive wheel drawing card loss leader

Antonyms

wheeler follower

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ledere, from Old English lǣdere, from Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī, from *laidī (“leading, leadership”) + *-ārī, or from *laid (“leading”) + *-ārī. By surface analysis, lead + -er. Cognate with Scots leader (“leader”), West Frisian lieder (“leader”), Dutch leider (“leader”), German Leiter (“leader, conductor, manager”), Danish leder (“leader, manager”), Swedish ledare (“leader, conductor, director”), Icelandic leiðari (“leader, conductor”).

English surname, both from the noun leader and an occupational use of lead (“heavy metal”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
  2. noun A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc. ; also, a line of gut, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

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

Sanskrit

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

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