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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pension

/ˈpɛnʃən/ noun, verb

Forms pensions pensioning pensioned

  1. noun (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. “Many old people depend on their pension to pay the bills.”
  2. noun (obsolete) A wage or fee.
  3. noun (obsolete) A charge or expense of some kind; a tax.
  4. noun A sum paid to a clergyman in place of tithes.
  5. noun (now historical) A regular allowance paid to support a royal favourite, or as patronage of an artist or scholar.
  6. verb (transitive) To grant a pension to.
  7. verb (transitive) To force (someone) to retire on a pension.
  8. noun A boarding house or small hotel, especially in continental Europe, which typically offers lodging and certain meals and services.
  9. noun (obsolete) A boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Synonyms

superannuation rent pension off hotel hostel bed and breakfast lodging place

Etymology

From Middle English pencioun, pensioun, from Anglo-Norman pencione, Old French pencion, and their source, Latin pēnsiō (“payment, weight, rent, compensation”), from the participle stem of pendō (“to weigh”). Doublet of pensione.

From French pension, from Old French pencion, as etymology 1 above. Doublet of pensione.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.]
  2. noun A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
  3. verb To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; --sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.

Etymology [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin to pend to hang. See Pendant, and cf. Spend.]

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