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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luster

/ˈlʌstɚ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms lusters lustering lustered lustre

  1. noun The ability or condition of shining with reflected light; sheen, gleam, gloss, sparkle, shine, etc. “metallic luster”
  2. noun (geology) The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.
  3. noun (figurative) Shining light from within, luminosity, brightness, shine. “the sun’s luster”
  4. noun (figurative) Shining beauty, splendor, attractiveness or attraction. “After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.”
  5. noun (figurative) Shining fame, renown, glory. “After the scandal, the idol lost his luster and could only get work in Vegas.”
  6. noun (figurative) Polish, social refinement. “Sure, the posh git spoke with fine lustre. ’S all a load of bollocks, though, innit?”
  7. noun (literary) Any shining body or thing.
  8. noun A piece of glass added to a light (especially a chandelier) to increase its luster.
  9. verb (intransitive, now rare) To have luster, to gleam, to shine.
  10. verb (intransitive, now rare) To gain luster, to become lustrous.
  11. verb (obsolete) To make illustrious or attractive, to distinguish.
  12. verb To coat with a lustrous material or glaze, to impart physical luster to an object.
  13. verb (transitive, obsolete) To shed light on, to illustrate, to show.
  14. verb Synonym of purify, to ritually cleanse or renew.
  15. verb Synonym of look, to look over, to survey.
  16. noun (now rare) One who lusts, one inflamed with lust.
  17. noun (obsolete) Synonym of den: a dwelling-place in a wilderness, especially for animals.
  18. proper noun A surname from German.

Synonyms

purify to ritually cleanse or renew look to look over to survey lustrate den lustre brilliancy splendor splendour shininess sheen

Antonyms

dullness

Etymology

From Middle French lustre, from Old Italian lustro, from Old Italian lustrare (“brighten”), from Latin lūstrō (“to purify, to brighten”), from Latin lūstrum (“purification ritual”).

From Latin lustra (“wilds, woods”).

From Middle English lustre, from Latin lustrum, from Old Latin *loustrom, of uncertain origin. More at lustrum.

Borrowed from German Luster or, possibly, a variant of Lester.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who lusts.
  2. noun A period of five years; a lustrum.
  3. noun Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.
  4. noun Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.

Etymology [L. lustrum: cf. F. lustre.]

Etymology [F. lustre; cf. It. lustro; both fr. L. lustrare to purify, go about (like the priests at the lustral sacrifice), traverse, survey, illuminate, fr. lustrum a purificatory sacrifice; perh. akin to E. loose. But lustrare to illuminate is perh. a different word, and akin to L. lucere to be light or clear, to shine. See Lucid, and cf. Illustrious, Lustrum.]

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