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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partisan

UK /ˈpɑː.tɪˌzæn/ · US /ˈpɑɹ.tɪ.zən/ noun, adjective

Forms partisans partizan

  1. noun An adherent to a party or faction.
  2. noun A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
  3. noun A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
  4. noun (now rare) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  5. adjective Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops. “partisan officer, partisan corps”
  6. adjective Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party. “They were blinded by partisan zeal.”
  7. adjective Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause. “partisan politics”
  8. noun (historical) A long-handled spear with a triangular, double-edged blade having lateral projections, in some forms also used in boar hunting.
  9. noun (obsolete) A soldier armed with such a weapon.

Synonyms

partyman zealot drumbeater enthusiast partizan

Antonyms

nonpartisan

Etymology

From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source.
The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690.
The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.

From French partizaine, from Middle French partizaine, partisanne etc., from Italian partigiana, related to Etymology 1 above (apparently because it was seen as a typical weapon of such forces).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest. "The violence of a partisan." Macaulay.
  2. noun (a) The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
  3. adjective Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party; as, blinded by partisan zeal.
  4. adjective Serving as a partisan in a detached command; as, a partisan officer or corps. Partisan ranger (Mil.), a member of a partisan corps.

Etymology [F., fr. It. partigiano. See Party, and cf. Partisan a truncheon.]

Etymology [Written also partizan.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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