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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

mile

/maɪ̯l/ noun, proper noun

Forms miles

  1. noun The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards. “Turn left in 1.2 miles.”
  2. noun Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
  3. noun Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
  4. noun The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
  5. noun Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
  6. noun (travel) An airline mile in a frequent flyer program.
  7. noun (informal) Any similarly large distance. “The shot missed by a mile.”
  8. noun (athletics) A race of 1 mile's length; a race of around 1 mile's length (usually 1500 or 1600 meters) “The runners competed in the mile.”
  9. proper noun A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
  10. proper noun A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.

Synonyms

statute mile stat mi land mile international mile mi nautical mile naut mi knot international nautical mile air mile sea mile geographical mile Admiralty mile Roman mile mil Swedish mile

Etymology

From Middle English myle, mile, from Old English mīl, from Proto-West Germanic *mīliju, a borrowing of Latin mīlia, mīllia, plural of mīle, mīlle (“mile”) (literally ‘thousand’ but used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

From Macedonian Ми́ле (Míle).

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彌勒 /弥勒 (Mílè).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.

Etymology [AS. mil, fr. L. millia, milia; pl. of mille a thousand, i. e., milia passuum a thousand paces. Cf. Mill the tenth of a cent, Million.]

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

Sanskrit

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