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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luncheon

/ˈlʌn.tʃən/ noun, verb

Forms luncheons luncheoning luncheoned lunching lunchen slunchin lunshin lunchion lunchin

  1. noun A formal meal served in the middle of the day. “Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.”
  2. noun (New Zealand) A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices. “Ian bought the luncheon since it was on special.”
  3. noun (dated) Any midday meal; lunch.
  4. noun (obsolete) A lump of food.
  5. noun (obsolete) A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
  6. verb (intransitive, dated) To eat luncheon.
  7. verb (transitive, rare) To serve luncheon to.

Synonyms

Belgium devon fritz polony lunch tiffin dejeuner

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from an earlier *lumpchin, *lumpchen, a diminutive of lump (“chunk, parcel of food, lunch”), thus related to lunch. It is unclear which came first: whether lunch is a shortening of luncheon, or whether luncheon is an augmentation of lunch. Possibly also a dissimilatory form of or influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).
Noun sense 2 (“sausage”) is likely a ellipsis of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A lump of food. [Prov. Eng.]
  2. noun A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast, as between breakfast and dinner.
  3. verb To take luncheon. Beaconsfield.

Etymology [Prov. E. luncheon, lunchion, lunshin, a large lump of food, fr. lunch. See Lunch.]

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

Sanskrit

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