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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

average

UK /ˈæv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ · US /ˈæv.ɚ.ɪd͡ʒ/ noun, adjective, verb

Forms averages av. ave. avg. averaging averaged

  1. noun (statistics) Any measure of central tendency, especially any mean, the median, or the mode. “You need to show some averages in an executive summary, show some samples of raw data in the document body, and move the full raw data to an appendix.”
  2. noun (mathematics) The arithmetic mean. “The average of 10, 20 and 24 is (10 + 20 + 24)/3 = 18.”
  3. noun (law, nautical) A financial loss due to damage to transported goods; compensation for damage or loss.
  4. noun (dated) Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
  5. noun (obsolete) Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
  6. noun (sports) An indication of a player's ability calculated from his scoring record, etc. “batting average”
  7. adjective (not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average. “The average age of the participants was 18.5.”
  8. adjective Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. “I soon found I was only an average chess player.”
  9. adjective Typical. “The average family will not need the more expensive features of this product.”
  10. adjective (informal) Not outstanding, not good, banal; bad or poor.
  11. verb (transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean. “If you average 10, 20, and 24, you get 18.”
  12. verb (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of. “The daily high temperature last month averaged 15°C.”
  13. verb (transitive) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion. “to average a loss”
  14. verb (intransitive) To be, generally or on average.
  15. noun (UK, law, obsolete) The feudal service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

Synonyms

mean expectation comme ci comme ça mediocre medium middling unremarkable so-so crappy moderate decent indifferent lackluster meh mid no great shakes nothing to write home about not worth writing home about OK okayish norm average out ordinary fair intermediate modal median

Antonyms

extraordinary

Etymology

Not entirely certain. The oldest meaning in English is “customs duty”. Borrowed from Middle French avarie (“damage to ship or cargo”), from Old French avarie, from Old Italian avaria where it is first attested in the 12th century in the context of Mediterranean trade. From there most sources trace it to Arabic عَوَارِيَّة (ʕawāriyya, “damaged goods”), from عَوَار (ʕawār, “fault, blemish, defect, flaw”), from عَوِرَ (ʕawira, “to lose an eye”), but the OED gives it a Romance derivation from Italian avere (“property, goods”) or the like.
The English suffix -age was added in analogy to words like damage.

From Middle English average, from Medieval Latin averagium, from aver (“horse or other beast of burden, service required from the same”) from Old English eafor (“obligation to carry goods and convey messages for one's lord”) from aferian (“to remove, take away”); + -age.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
  2. noun A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
  3. adjective Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
  4. adjective According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.

Etymology [OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. avérage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first meaning was peAver, n., Avercorn, Averpenny.]

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

Sanskrit

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