Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

old maid

/əʊld meɪd/ noun

Forms old maids

noun (derogatory) An old woman who has never married; a spinster. “If she is looking for the perfect man before she marries, she'll be an old maid.”
noun The Madagascar periwinkle.
noun The common zinnia.
noun An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels.
noun (uncountable) A card game in which cards must be paired and one unmatchable card is designated "old maid".
noun The unmatchable card in that game.
noun (uncountable) A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card. “The only card games I know are Go Fish and Old Maid.”
noun (countable) The unmatchable card itself. “The Joker will serve as the Old Maid.”

Synonyms

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “old maid”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details