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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academic

/ˌæk.əˈdɛm.ɪk/ adjective, noun

Forms academics academick acad acad.

  1. adjective Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato. “the academic sect or philosophy”
  2. adjective Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning, or a scholarly society or organization.
  3. adjective In particular: relating to literary, classical, or artistic studies like the humanities, rather than to technical or vocational studies like engineering or welding.
  4. adjective Having little practical use or value, as by being overly detailed and unengaging, or by being theoretical and speculative with no practical importance. “I have always had an academic interest in hacking.”
  5. adjective Having a love of or aptitude for learning. “I’m more academic than athletic — I get lower marks in phys. ed. than in anything else.”
  6. adjective (art) Conforming to set rules and traditions; conventional; formalistic.
  7. adjective Subscribing to the architectural standards of Vitruvius.
  8. adjective So scholarly as to be unaware of the outside world; lacking in worldliness; inexperienced in practical matters.
  9. noun (usually capitalized) A follower of Plato, a Platonist.
  10. noun A senior member of an academy, college, or university; a person who attends an academy; a person engaged in scholarly pursuits; one who is academic in practice.
  11. noun A member of the Academy; an academician.
  12. noun (archaic) A student in a college.
  13. noun (plural only) Academic dress; academicals.
  14. noun (plural only) Academic studies.

Synonyms

academician faculty member donnish pedantic

Etymology

From both the Medieval Latin acadēmicus and the French académique, from Latin academia, from Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós), from Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía) or Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia), the name of the place where Plato taught; compare academy. By surface analysis, academy + -ic.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
  2. noun A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.
  3. adjective Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the Academic sect or philosophy.
  4. adjective Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific.

Etymology [L. academicus: cf. F. académigue. See Academy.]

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