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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millennium

/mɪˈlɛnɪəm/ noun, proper noun

Forms millennia millenniums the millennium millenium

  1. noun (countable) A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
  2. noun (with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000. “A huge fireworks display was put on in Sydney to celebrate the millennium.”
  3. noun (archaic) Any long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday. “expecting a millennium”
  4. proper noun (Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations). “usher in the millennium”
  5. proper noun (archaic) A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday. “usher in the millennium”
  6. proper noun The Kingdom of Christ on Earth, predicted by Christians to come about someday.
  7. proper noun A particular long (and possibly endless) era of universal happiness, peace, and prosperity, predicted by various people to come about someday.

Synonyms

chiliad kiloannum mul:ka kiloyear kyr yearthousand utopia millenary

Etymology

From Late Latin mīllennium, from Latin mīllennis (“1000-year”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A thousand years; especially, thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Etymology [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile, and Annual.]

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