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

reader

UK /ˈɹiː.də/ · US /ˈɹi.dɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms readers

  1. noun A person who reads. “an early reader, a talented reader”
  2. noun A person who reads a publication. “10,000 weekly readers”
  3. noun A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  4. noun A proofreader.
  5. noun A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
  6. noun A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
  7. noun (chiefly UK) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
  8. noun Any device that reads something. “a card reader, a microfilm reader”
  9. proper noun A surname
  10. proper noun A census-designated place in Nevada County and Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Western Mound Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.
  12. proper noun A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, named after the Reader Run creek.

Synonyms

proofreader printer's reader publisher's reader first reader reading notice subscriber reviewer referee lector lecturer

Antonyms

nonreader

Etymology

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who reads. Specifically: (a) One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church.
  2. noun One who reads much; one who is studious.

Etymology [AS. rædere.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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