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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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

lee

/liː/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Also a form of leigh

Forms lees Lea Leigh Li Le Ly Rhee Ree

  1. noun (nautical) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
  2. noun (nautical) The side of the ship away from the wind.
  3. noun A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind (see also leeside); shelter; protection. “the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship”
  4. noun Calm, peace.
  5. adjective (nautical, geology) Facing away from the flow of a fluid, usually air. “lee side, lee shore, lee helm”
  6. noun (obsolete) Lees; dregs.
  7. proper noun An English topographic surname from Middle English.
  8. proper noun A male given name.
  9. proper noun A female given name.
  10. proper noun A hamlet in Berrynarbor parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS5546).
  11. proper noun A small village in Ilfracombe parish, North Devon district, Devon (OS grid ref SS4846).
  12. proper noun A suburb in the borough of Lewisham, Greater London (OS grid ref TQ3974).
  13. proper noun A hamlet in Romsey parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, previously in Romsey Extra parish (OS grid ref SU3617).
  14. proper noun A hamlet in Hexhamshire parish, Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9459).
  15. proper noun A river in County Cork, Ireland.
  16. proper noun A surname from Chinese.
  17. proper noun A surname from Cantonese.
  18. proper noun A surname from Hokkien.
  19. proper noun A surname from Teochew.
  20. proper noun A surname from Mandarin.

Synonyms

Spike Lee Shelton Jackson Lee Gypsy Rose Lee Rose Louise Hovick Bruce Lee Lee Yuen Kam Tsung Dao Lee Richard Henry Lee Henry Lee Lighthorse Harry Lee Robert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee lee side leeward downwind

Antonyms

stoss weather windward

Etymology

From Middle English lee, from Old English hlēo, hlēow (“shelter, protection”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlaiw (whence also Proto-Slavic *xlěvъ), from Proto-Germanic *hlaiwaz (compare German Lee (“lee”), Swedish lä, Danish læ, Norwegian le, Old Norse hlé, Dutch lij), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (compare Welsh clyd (“warm, cozy”), Latin calēre (“to warm up”), Lithuanian šiltas (“warm, pleasant”), Sanskrit शरद् (śarad, “autumn”)).

From Old English lēa, the dative case of lēah (“meadow”), originally to denote someone who lived near a meadow.

From Irish Laoi, perhaps from an ancient personal name.

* Mandarin: 李 (Lǐ), and other less common surnames such as 黎 (Lí).
* Cantonese: 李 (lei5), and other less common surnames such as 利 (lei6).
* Hokkien: 李 (Lí), Teochew: 李 (li2).
* Hakka: 李 (Lí).

Webster’s 1913

  1. , i, To lie; to speak falsely. [Obs.] Chaucer.
  2. noun That which settles at the bottom, as, of a cask of liquor (esp. wine); sediment; dregs; --used now only in the plural. [Lees occurs also as a form of the singular.] "The lees of wine." Holland.
  3. noun A sheltered place; esp., a place; protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
  4. noun That part of the hemisphere, as one stands on shipboard, toward which the wind blows. See Lee, a. By the lee, To bring by the lee. See under By, and Bring.

Etymology [F. lie, perh. fr. L. levare to lift up, raise. Cf. Lever.]

Etymology [OE. lee shelter, Icel. hl, akin to AS. hleó, hleów, shelter, protection, OS. hlèo, D. lij lee, Sw. lä, Dan. læ.]

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

Sanskrit

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