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

retirement

/ɹəˈtaɪə(ɹ).mənt/ noun

Forms retirements

  1. noun An act of retiring; withdrawal.
  2. noun (uncountable) The state of being retired; seclusion.
  3. noun (now rare) A place of seclusion or privacy; a retreat.
  4. noun The state of having permanently left one's employment, now especially at reaching pensionable age; the portion of one's life after retiring from one's career.
  5. noun The act of leaving one's career or employment permanently.

Synonyms

departure withdrawment privacy seclusion solitude retreat

Etymology

From French retirement, from retirer (“withdraw, retire”); corresponding to retire + -ment.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer.
  2. noun A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. [Archaic]

Etymology [Cf. F. retirement.]

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

Sanskrit

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