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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strawberry

UK /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/ · US /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ noun, adjective, verb, proper noun

Forms strawberries strawberrier strawberriest strawberrying strawberried

  1. noun The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. “They went to pick strawberries today.”
  2. noun Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit). “She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.”
  3. noun The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
  4. noun A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
  5. noun (rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus). “strawberry marks”
  6. noun (US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
  7. noun A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
  8. adjective Containing or having the flavor of strawberries. “I'd like a large strawberry shake.”
  9. adjective Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
  10. adjective Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products. “The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.”
  11. verb (intransitive) To gather strawberries.
  12. verb (intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.
  13. proper noun A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
  14. proper noun A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.
  16. proper noun A surname

Synonyms

earthberry strawb strawberryish strawberrylike strawberry mark hemangioma simplex

Etymology

From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are:
# from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way);
# from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca.

Etymology [AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws.]

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