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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theater

UK /ˈθiː.ə.tə/ · US /ˈθi(ə)tɚ/ noun

Forms theaters theatre

  1. noun (countable) A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
  2. noun A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war. “His grandfather was in the Pacific theater during the war.”
  3. noun A lecture theatre.
  4. noun (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation. “This man is about to die, get him into theater at once!”
  5. noun (US) A cinema. “We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen.”
  6. noun Drama or performance as a profession or art form. “I worked in theater for twenty-five years.”
  7. noun Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
  8. noun (figurative, derogatory, often following a noun used attributively) A conspicuous but unproductive display of action. “The Senate confirmation hearings were just theater.”

Synonyms

playhouse fabulous invalid theatre house dramaturgy dramatic art dramatics field field of operations theater of operations theatre of operations

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theātrum, from Ancient Greek θέᾱτρον (théātron, “a place for viewing”), from θεᾰ́ομαι (theắomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.
  2. noun Any room adapted to the exhibition of any performances before an assembly, as public lectures, scholastic exercises, anatomical demonstrations, surgical operations, etc.

Etymology [F. thé\'83tre, L. theatrum, Gr. dhya to meditate, think. Cf. Theory.]

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