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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nation

/ˈneɪʃən/ noun, adverb, adjective, proper noun

Forms nations 'nation

  1. noun (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. “The Roma are a nation without a country.”
  2. noun (by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted. “the Dallas Cowboys nation”
  3. noun (international law, metonymic) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country. “Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.”
  4. noun (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members. “Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.”
  5. noun (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
  6. noun In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory. “The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.”
  7. noun (rare) Damnation.
  8. adverb (rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.
  9. adjective (rare, dialectal) An intensifier; extreme, great.
  10. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

tribe student nation state country land commonwealth res publica body politic Carry Nation Carry Amelia Moore Nation

Etymology

From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced Old English þēod.

Short for damnation or tarnation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
  2. noun The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. A nation is the unity of a people. Coleridge.

Etymology [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p.p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnaci, from the same root as E. kin. *44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]

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

Sanskrit

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