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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pavilion

/pəˈvɪljən/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms pavilions pavilioning pavilioned

  1. noun An ornate tent.
  2. noun A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
  3. noun A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
  4. noun (cricket) The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals. “Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.”
  5. noun A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
  6. noun The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
  7. noun (anatomy) The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
  8. noun (anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
  9. verb (transitive) To furnish with a pavilion.
  10. verb (transitive) To put inside a pavilion.
  11. verb (transitive, figuratively) To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
  12. proper noun A community and Indian reserve in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, British Columbia, Canada.
  13. proper noun A town and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, New York, United States.

Synonyms

auricle pinna marquee

Etymology

From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. "[The] Greeks do pitch their brave pavilions." Shak.
  2. noun A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or central feature of a large pile.
  3. verb To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

Etymology [F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a butterfly's wings.]

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

Sanskrit

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