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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neighborhood

UK /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/ · US /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/ noun

Forms neighborhoods neighbourhood

  1. noun The residential area near one's home. “He lives in my neighborhood.”
  2. noun (collective) The inhabitants of a residential area. “The fire alarmed the neighborhood.”
  3. noun A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. “We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.”
  4. noun An approximate amount. “He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.”
  5. noun The quality of physical proximity. “The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.”
  6. noun (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity. “Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.”
  7. noun (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
  8. noun (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

Synonyms

neighborship vicinity proximity quarter locality neighbourhood neck of the woods region

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
  2. noun A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

Etymology [Written also neighbourhood.]

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