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

levee

/ˈlɛvi/ noun, verb

Forms levees leveeing leveed

  1. noun An elevated ridge of deposited sediment on the banks of a river, formed by the river's overflow at times of high discharge.
  2. noun An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi.
  3. noun (US) The steep bank of a river.
  4. noun (US) The border of an irrigated field.
  5. noun (US) A pier or other landing place on a river.
  6. verb (US, transitive) To keep within a channel by means of levees.
  7. noun (obsolete) The act of rising; getting up, especially in the morning after rest.
  8. noun A reception of visitors held after getting up.
  9. noun A formal reception, especially one given by royalty or other leaders.
  10. verb (transitive) To attend the levee or levees of.

Synonyms

dike floodwall

Etymology

From French levée, from lever (“to raise, rise”).

From French levé variant of the noun lever (“the act of getting up in the morning”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of rising. " The sun's levee." Gray.
  2. noun A morning assembly or reception of visitors, --in distinction from a soirée, or evening assembly; a matinée; hence, also, any general or somewhat miscellaneous gathering of guests, whether in the daytime or evening; as, the president's levee.
  3. verb To attend the levee or levees of. He levees all the great. Young.
  4. noun An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river. [U. S. ]

Etymology [F. lever, fr. lever to raise, se lever to rise. See Lever, n.]

Etymology [F. levée, fr. lever to raise. See Lever, and cf. Levy.]

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

Sanskrit

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