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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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senate

UK /ˈsɛnɪt/ · US /ˈsɛnət/ noun, proper noun

Forms senates

  1. noun In some bicameral legislative systems, the upper house or chamber.
  2. noun A group of experienced, respected, wise individuals serving as decision makers or advisors in a political system or in institutional governance, as in a university, and traditionally of advanced age.
  3. noun In Germany, the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; the governments of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League; and the bench in a higher appellate court.
  4. proper noun Any of several legislative bodies. (In countries which have multiple legislative bodies, the Senate is often the more senior.)
  5. proper noun (historical) The council that governed the ancient Roman Republic.
  6. proper noun (Canada) The Senate of Canada; the upper house of the Canadian parliament; "the Senate".
  7. proper noun (US) The United States Senate.
  8. proper noun (US) The upper legislative body of many of the states of the United States.
  9. proper noun (Philippines) The upper house of the Philippine Congress.

Synonyms

United States Senate U.S. Senate US Senate

Etymology

From Middle English senat, from Old French senat, from Latin senātus (“council of elders; a senate”), from senex (“old”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically: (a) (Anc. Rom.)
  2. noun A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.

Etymology [OE. senat, F. sénat, fr. L. senatus, fr. senex, gen. senis, old, an old man. See Senior, Sir.]

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