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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provost

UK /ˈpɹɒvəst/ · US /ˈpɹoʊvoʊst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms provosts provosting provosted Provis

  1. noun (religion, historical) A dean: the head of a cathedral chapter.
  2. noun (religion) The head of various other ecclesiastical bodies, even (rare, obsolete) muezzins.
  3. noun (religion) The minister of the chief Protestant church of a town or region in Germany, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia.
  4. noun (UK, higher education) The head of various colleges and universities.
  5. noun (obsolete) A ruler.
  6. noun A mayor: the chief magistrate of a town, particularly (Scotland) the head of a burgh or (historical) the former chiefs of various towns in France, Flanders, or (by extension) other Continental European countries.
  7. noun (religion, historical) A prior: an abbot's second-in-command.
  8. noun (US, higher education) A senior deputy administrator; a vice-president of academic affairs.
  9. verb (UK, transitive, used in passive, obsolete, military slang) To be delivered to a provost marshal for punishment. “Around the time of the Rebellions of 1837 and the First Anglo-Afghan War, British servicemen spoke of being provosted.”
  10. proper noun A surname originating as an occupation for a provost.

Synonyms

dean president mayor reeve prefect and praetor ruler prepositus steward viceroy governor police officer

Etymology

From Middle English, from late Old English prōfost, prāfost, from Late Latin prōpositus, variant of Latin praepositus (“[one] placed in command”). In some senses, via Anglo-Norman provolt; via Anglo-Norman and Old French provost (modern French prévôt). As a Central European ecclesiastical office, via German Propst, Danish provst, etc.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches.
  2. noun The keeper of a prison. [Obs.] Shak.

Etymology [OF. provost (L. prae and pro being confused), F. prevôt, fr. L. praepositus placed before, a chief, fr. praeponere to place before: cf. AS. prafost, profast. See Preposition, and cf. Propound.]

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