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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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terrene

/təˈɹiːn/ adjective, noun

Forms terrenes

  1. adjective Pertaining to earth or the material world; earthly, terrestrial (as opposed to heavenly or marine).
  2. adjective (science fiction) Made of matter (as opposed to antimatter).
  3. noun (poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.
  4. noun Synonym of Terran (“an inhabitant of Earth; an earthling”).
  5. adjective Synonym of Terran (“of Earth; of terrestrial origin”).

Synonyms

Terran tellurian telluric terrestrial mundane

Antonyms

contraterrene

Etymology

From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terrēnus, from terra (“earth”).

See terrene.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tureen. [Obs.] Walpole.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, terrene substance.
  3. adjective Earthy; terrestrial.
  4. noun The earth's surface; the earth. [Poetic]

Etymology [L. terrenus, fr. terra the earth. See Terrace.]

Etymology [L. terrenum land, ground: cf. F. terrain.]

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