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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mistress

/ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/ noun, verb

Forms mistresses mistressing mistressed mistris

  1. noun A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership. “She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses.”
  2. noun A female head of household.
  3. noun A female teacher. “games mistress”
  4. noun The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
  5. noun A dominatrix.
  6. noun A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
  7. noun A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
  8. noun (Scotland) A married woman; a wife.
  9. verb (transitive, rare) Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.
  10. verb (intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.
  11. noun (archaic) Used as the title of a married woman before her name. Now used only in the abbreviated form Mrs.
  12. noun (BDSM) Used as the title of a female dominant.

Synonyms

boss head leader schoolmarm bit on the side fancy woman comaré goomah concubine doxy dulcinea leman loon minx number two side bitch side chick side piece side ting sprunk kept woman schoolma'am schoolmistress

Antonyms

wife

Etymology

From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.
  2. noun A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.
  3. verb To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] Donne.

Etymology [OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F. maîtresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, and cf. Miss a young woman.]

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

Sanskrit

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