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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

terrestrial

/tɪˈɹɛstɹɪ.əl/ noun, adjective

Forms terrestrials

  1. noun (botany) A ground-dwelling plant.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the Earth or its (native) inhabitants.
  3. adjective Of, relating to, or composed of land or earth, as contrasted with bodies of water, with wetlands viewed as semiaquatic environs, or with aerial or space environs.
  4. adjective (of plants) Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitats or substrates). “a terrestrial plant”
  5. adjective (astronomy, of a planet) Being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals, as contrasted with gases, liquified gases, and dust. “a terrestrial planet”
  6. adjective Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
  7. adjective (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
  8. adjective (broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to satellite or cable.
  9. noun An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

Synonyms

earthly land landbased landly tellurian telluric terrene Terran rocky metallic worldly sublunary Earthling planetary mundane sublunar

Antonyms

celestial spiritual ethereal alien extraterrestrial amphibious aquatic

Etymology

From Middle English terrestrialle, from terrestre or Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”), with the suffix -al.

From Latin terrestris, from terra (“land, earth, ground”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40.
  2. adjective Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison.
  3. noun An inhabitant of the earth.

Etymology [L. terrestris, from terra the earth. See Terrace.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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