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

mission

/ˈmɪʃ.ən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms missions missioning missioned

  1. noun (countable) A set of tasks that fulfills a purpose or duty; an assignment set by an employer, or by oneself.
  2. noun A important goal or purpose; an objective.
  3. noun (countable) A missionary expedition.
  4. noun (in the plural, "the missions") Third World charities, particularly those which preach as well as provide aid.
  5. noun (countable, Catholicism) An infrequent gathering of religious believers in a parish, usually part of a larger regional event with a central theme.
  6. noun A number of people appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.
  7. noun (obsolete) Dismissal; discharge from service
  8. noun A settlement or building serving as a base for missionary work. “Many cities across the Americas grew from Spanish missions.”
  9. verb (transitive) To send on a mission.
  10. verb (intransitive) To do missionary work, proselytize.
  11. verb (transitive) To undertake an arduous or long task that requires substantial effort.
  12. proper noun A district municipality of British Columbia, Canada.
  13. proper noun A neighborhood of San Francisco.

Synonyms

missionary post missionary station foreign mission military mission charge commission missionary work deputation delegation delegacy

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin missiō, missiōnem (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
  2. noun That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.
  3. verb To send on a mission. [Mostly used in the form of the past participle.] Keats.

Etymology [L. missio, fr. mittere, missum, to send: cf. F. mission. See Missile.]

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

Sanskrit

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