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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sleeper

/ˈsliːpə(ɹ)/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms sleepers sleepering sleepered

  1. noun Someone who sleeps. “I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.”
  2. noun That which lies dormant, as a law.
  3. noun A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.
  4. noun A small starter earring, worn to prevent a piercing from closing.
  5. noun A railway sleeping car. “We spent a night on an uncomfortable sleeper between Athens and Vienna.”
  6. noun (martial arts, wrestling) A sleeper hold.
  7. noun Something that achieves unexpected success after an interval of time. “A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released.”
  8. noun Any member of the family Odontobutidae of goby-like bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
  9. verb (rare) To mark a calf by cutting its ear.
  10. noun (rail transport, UK) A railroad tie.
  11. noun (carpentry) A structural beam in a floor running perpendicular to both the joists beneath and floorboards above.
  12. noun (nautical) A heavy floor timber in a ship's bottom.
  13. noun (nautical) The lowest, or bottom, tier of casks.
  14. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sleeper agent sleeper hit sleeper goby tie slumberer railroad tie crosstie sleeping car wagon-lit

Antonyms

cop magnet rice burner racecar

Etymology

From Middle English sleper, equivalent to sleep + -er.

Compare Norwegian sleip (“a sleeper (a timber); as adjective, slippery, smooth”). See slape.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
  2. noun That which lies dormant, as a law. [Obs.] Bacon.
  3. noun Something lying in a reclining posture or position.

Etymology [Cf. Norw. sleip a sleeper (a timber), as adj., slippery, smooth. See Slape.]

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

Sanskrit

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