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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beauty

UK /ˈbjuːti/ · US /ˈbjuti/ noun, interjection, adjective, verb

Forms beauties beautiest beautying beautied

  1. noun (uncountable) The quality of being (especially visually) attractive, pleasing, fine or good-looking; comeliness.
  2. noun Someone who is beautiful. “Brigitte Bardot was a renowned beauty.”
  3. noun (in the plural) Those aspects or elements that make someone or something beautiful.
  4. noun Something that is particularly good or pleasing. “What a goal! That was a real beauty!”
  5. noun An excellent or egregious example of something. “He got into a fight and ended up with two black eyes – two real beauties!”
  6. noun (with the definite article) The excellence or genius of a scheme or decision. “The beauty of the deal is it costs nothing!”
  7. noun (particle physics, obsolete) A beauty quark (now called bottom quark).
  8. noun Beauty treatment; cosmetology. “a hair and beauty salon”
  9. interjection (Canada) Thanks!
  10. interjection (Canada) Cool! “It's the long weekend. Beauty!”
  11. adjective (archaic, poetic) Possessing beauty; beautiful.
  12. adjective (Canada) Of high quality, well done. “He made a beauty pass through the neutral zone.”
  13. verb (obsolete, transitive) To make beautiful.

Synonyms

good-lookingness belle gorgeousness inspiration loveliness looker good looker beautiful person beautiful woman attractiveness beautifulness comeliness prettiness pulchritude gem jewel smasher stunner knockout ravisher sweetheart peach lulu mantrap dish beaut

Antonyms

repulsiveness homeliness ugliness

Etymology

From Middle English bewty, bewte, beaute, bealte, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beauté (early Old French spelling biauté), from Vulgar Latin *bellitātem (“beauty”), from Latin bellus (“beautiful, fair”); see beau. In this sense, mostly displaced native Old English fæġernes, whence Modern English fairness.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
  2. noun A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.

Etymology [OE. beaute, beute, OF. beauté, biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.]

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

Sanskrit

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