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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trophy

UK /ˈtɹəʊfi/ · US /ˈtɹoʊfi/ noun, verb

Forms trophies trophying trophied

  1. noun An object, usually in the form of a statuette, cup, or shield, awarded for success in a competition or to mark a special achievement. “He won the trophy in a running competition.”
  2. noun An object taken as a prize by a hunter, or a conqueror or belligerent, especially one that is displayed. “The set of antlers which hung on the wall was his prized trophy.”
  3. noun Any emblem of success; a status symbol. “His trophies included his second wife, his successful children, the third and fourth homes in Palm Beach and Malibu, and his three yachts.”
  4. noun (criminology, by extension) An object taken by a serial killer or rapist as a memento of the crime.
  5. noun (historical, Ancient Rome) A tropæum.
  6. noun (art, architecture) A display of weaponry and other militaria, often captured from a defeated enemy, as an ornament designed for the purpose of triumphalist display by a victor or as a show of military prowess by a monarch.
  7. noun An artifact or artwork that has been stolen by a criminal and traded on the black market.
  8. noun An animal killed by a trophy hunter that usually has its parts sold on the black market.
  9. verb (transitive) To adorn (someone) with trophies.
  10. verb (intransitive) To win a trophy in a competition.

Synonyms

prize

Etymology

From Middle French trophée, from Latin trophaeum (“a sign of victory, a monument”), tropaeum, from Ancient Greek τρόπαιον (trópaion, “monument of an enemy's defeat”), from neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaîos, “of defeat”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “a rout, a turning of an enemy”). Doublet of tropæum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A sign or memorial of a victory raised on the field of battle, or, in case of a naval victory, on the nearest land. Sometimes trophies were erected in the chief city of the conquered people.
  2. noun The representation of such a memorial, as on a medal; esp. (Arch.), an ornament representing a group of arms and military weapons, offensive and defensive.

Etymology [F. trophée (cf. It. & Sp. trofeo), L. tropaeum, trophaeum, Gr. Trope.]

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

Sanskrit

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