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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toilet

/ˈtɔɪ.lət/ noun, verb

Forms toilets toileting toiletting toileted toiletted toilette

  1. noun (UK, India, Australia, Hong Kong) A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. “Sorry, I was in the toilet.”
  2. noun (New Zealand) A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower.
  3. noun A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system. “My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.”
  4. noun (figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.
  5. noun (obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.
  6. noun (obsolete) The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.
  7. noun (now historical or archaic) Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.
  8. noun (now rare, archaic) One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.
  9. verb (dated) To dress and groom oneself.
  10. verb To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
  11. verb To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.

Synonyms

facilities half bath half bathroom cloakroom toilette can chamber chamber pot chemical toilet commode Cousin John crapper gazunder guzunder honey bucket honeypot Jerry john johnny jordan lavatory lav privy bathroom pot potty stool throne gutter sewer

Etymology

From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
  2. noun A dressing table. Pope.

Etymology [F. toilette, dim. of toile cloth. See Toil a net.]

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

Sanskrit

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