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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marriage

/ˈmæɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun, proper noun

Forms marriages mariage

  1. noun The state of being married. “You should enter marriage for love.”
  2. noun A union of two or more people that creates a family tie and carries legal, social, or religious rights and responsibilities.
  3. noun (sometimes specifically) The union of only two people, to the exclusion of all others. “My grandparents' marriage lasted for forty years.”
  4. noun (often specifically) The union of two people of opposite sex, to the exclusion of all others.
  5. noun A wedding; a ceremony in which people wed. “You are cordially invited to the marriage of James Smith and Jane Doe.”
  6. noun (figuratively) A close union.
  7. noun (figuratively) A joining of two parts.
  8. noun (card games) A king and a queen, when held as a hand in some versions of poker or melded in pinochle.
  9. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

wedlock alliance matrimony wedding civil union union spousal relationship married couple man and wife marriage ceremony

Antonyms

divorce

Etymology

From Middle English mariage, from Old French mariage, from marier (“to marry”), from Latin marītō (“marry”, verb, literally “give in marriage”), from marītus (“lover”, “nuptial”), from mas (“male, masculine, of the male sex”). Equivalent to marry + -age. Doublet of maritage. Displaced native Old English sinsċipe.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
  2. noun The marriage vow or contract. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Etymology [OE. mariage, F. mariage. See Marry, v. t.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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