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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prostitution

/ˌprɒstɪˈt͡ʃuːʃn/ noun

Forms prostitutions

  1. noun Engaging in sexual activity with another person for pay. “His addiction brought him to the point that prostitution was the only means he had to survive.”
  2. noun (by extension) Engaging in sexual activity with another person in exchange for goods (not necessarily money) or services.
  3. noun (by extension) Debasement for profit or impure motives. “The television advertising job was a prostitution of the talents of one of the great writers of the century.”

Synonyms

harlotry oldest occupation oldest profession whoredom world's oldest profession

Etymology

From Late Latin prostitutio. Equivalent to prostitute + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
  2. noun The act of setting one's self to sale, or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one's power; as, the prostitution of abilities; the prostitution of the press. "Mental prostitution." Byron.

Etymology [L. prostitutio: cf. F. prostitution.]

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

Sanskrit

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