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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pioneer

UK /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪə(ɹ)/ · US /ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pioneers pioneering pioneered

  1. noun One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
  2. noun A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress. “Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization.”
  3. noun (military) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
  4. noun A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
  5. noun (communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.
  6. verb (transitive) To be the first to do or achieve (something), preparing the way for others to follow. “The young doctor pioneered a new life-saving surgical technique.”
  7. noun (Singapore) A person born on or before 31 December 1949 and possessing Singapore citizenship on or before 31 December 1986, given this status and certain benefits to recognise their contributions to Singapore's early development.
  8. proper noun A census-designated place in Amador County, California, United States.
  9. proper noun A planning area in the West Region of Singapore.
  10. proper noun A locality in Dorset council area, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Synonyms

push the envelope break new ground innovator trailblazer groundbreaker open up initiate

Etymology

From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
  2. noun One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow; as, pioneers of civilization; pioneers of reform.
  3. verb To go before, and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.

Etymology [F. pionier, orig., a foot soldier, OF. peonier, fr. OF. peon a foot soldier, F. pion. See Pawn in chess.]

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

Sanskrit

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