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

provincial

/pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/ adjective, noun

Forms provincials

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a province. “a provincial government”
  2. adjective Constituting a province.
  3. adjective Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. adjective Not cosmopolitan; limited in outlook; narrow; illiberal.
  5. adjective (extreme degree) Backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude.
  6. adjective Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. “a provincial synod”
  7. noun A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  8. noun (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
  9. noun (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
  10. noun A country bumpkin.
  11. adjective (obsolete) Of or pertaining to Provence; Provençal.

Synonyms

peasant bucolic

Antonyms

cosmopolitan

Etymology

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province + -ial.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect.
  2. adjective Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. "Provincial airs and graces." Macaulay.
  3. noun A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  4. noun A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.

Etymology [L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal.]

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

Sanskrit

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