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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republic

/ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/ noun, proper noun

Forms republics republick republique

  1. noun A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives, rather than with a monarch or emperor; a country with no monarchy. “The United States is a republic; Norway is a constitutional monarchy.”
  2. noun (archaic) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
  3. noun One of the subdivisions constituting Russia. See oblast. “The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.”
  4. noun One of the subdivisions that made up the former Yugoslavia.
  5. proper noun A small city in Republic County, Kansas, United States.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
  7. proper noun A city in Christian County and Greene County, Missouri, United States.
  8. proper noun A village in Seneca County, Ohio, United States.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  10. proper noun A small city, the county seat of Ferry County, Washington, United States.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.
  12. proper noun The Roman Republic.

Synonyms

democracy commonwealth

Etymology

From Middle French republique (“republic”), from Latin rēspūblicā, from rēs (“thing”) + pūblica (“public”); hence literally “the public thing”.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Common weal. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  2. noun A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

Etymology [F. république, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, a., and Public.]

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