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

manhood

/ˈmænhʊd/ noun

Forms manhoods manhead

  1. noun The state or condition of being a human being. “He feared the speedy decline of all manhood.”
  2. noun The state or condition of being a man, as contrasted with being a boy, woman, girl, or nonbinary. “He was a strapping youth poised on the brink of manhood.”
  3. noun All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively. “During the Second World War, Russia lost a great percentage of its young manhood, giving rise to a great wave of widowhood in the country.”
  4. noun The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively. “My goodness, James certainly is a prime example of manhood, isn't he?”
  5. noun The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly. “The failure of William's business seems to have been quite damaging to his manhood.”
  6. noun (euphemistic) The male genitalia, especially the penis. “She spied on him in the shower and glimpsed his manhood.”

Synonyms

humanity mankind manfulness manliness mannishness humanness

Antonyms

womanhood womankind womanishness womanliness

Etymology

From Middle English manhode, also manhede (> obsolete English manhead), equivalent to man + -hood. Cognate with Middle Dutch manheit (“manhood”), Middle Low German manheit (whence German Low German Mannheit (“manhood”)), German Mannheit (“manhood”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
  2. noun Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.

Etymology [Man- + -hood.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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