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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senior

UK /ˈsiːnjə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈsinjɚ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms seniors seniour Sinyard

  1. adjective Older. “senior citizen”
  2. adjective Higher in rank, dignity, or office; superior. “senior member; senior counsel”
  3. adjective (US) Of or pertaining to a student's final academic year at a high school (twelfth grade) or university.
  4. adjective (sports, US, Canada) Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience. “senior hockey”
  5. adjective (card games) Synonym of elder.
  6. noun (now chiefly US) An old person.
  7. noun Someone older than someone else (with possessive). “He was four years her senior.”
  8. noun Someone seen as deserving respect or reverence because of their age.
  9. noun (obsolete, biblical) An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
  10. noun Somebody who is higher in rank, dignity, or office.
  11. noun (US, Philippines) A final-year student at a high school or university; a finalist.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

geriatric elder long in the tooth on in years masters veteran senior citizen ager antique badge-cove cheeser coffin dodger crinkly eld elderly genarian geezer grayhead greyhead hoarhead fourth-year aged older

Antonyms

junior

Etymology

From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective More advanced than another in age; prior in age; elder; hence, more advanced in dignity, rank, or office; superior; as, senior member; senior counsel.
  2. adjective Belonging to the final year of the regular course in American colleges, or in professional schools.
  3. noun A person who is older than another; one more advanced in life.
  4. noun One older in office, or whose entrance upon office was anterior to that of another; one prior in grade.

Etymology [L. senior, compar. of senex, gen. senis, old. See Sir.]

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

Sanskrit

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