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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age

/eɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb

Forms ages aging ageing aged agéed

  1. noun (countable) The amount of time that some being has been alive, or that some thing has been in existence, as measured from its birth or origin until the present or until some other given reference point. (Often measured in number of years; alternatively in months, days, hours, etc.; see also the usage notes) “"What is the age of your oldest child?" — "He's ten." (ten years old)”
  2. noun (uncountable) The state of being old; the latter part of life. “Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age, sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
  3. noun (countable) Any particular stage of life. “the age of infancy”
  4. noun (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested. “the age of consent; the age of discretion”
  5. noun (uncountable) Maturity; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities. “to come of age; she is now of age”
  6. noun (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others. “the golden age of cinema; the first age of colonialism; a bygone age”
  7. noun The time or era in history when someone or something was alive or flourished. “the age of Pericles; the age of the dinosaurs”
  8. noun (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth. “The Bronze Age was followed by the Iron Age.”
  9. verb (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old or older; to show marks of age. “He grew fat as he aged.”
  10. verb (intransitive, of a statement, prediction, etc.) To suffer the passage of time so as to later be viewed or turn out in a certain way. “His prediction that we didn't stand a chance hasn't aged well, now that we've won the cup.”
  11. verb (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. “Grief ages us.”
  12. verb To allow to mature. “We age the whiskey for five years.”
  13. verb To treat or tamper with in order to give a false appearance of age. “This clock is modern, but it has been deliberately aged in an attempt to make it seem antique.”
  14. verb (transitive) To determine the age of (the length of time that something has been alive or in existence). “There are several ways to age trees.”
  15. verb (transitive) To indicate or reveal that (a person) has been alive for a certain period of time, especially a long one. “I clearly remember hearing the news of Kennedy's assassination. That ages me.”
  16. verb (transitive, figuratively) To allow (something) to persist by postponing an action that would extinguish it, as a debt. “Money's a little tight right now. Let's age our bills for a week or so.”
  17. verb (Scots law) To act for another (as a law agent or solicitor).

Synonyms

old age dotage senility seniority chair days codgerhood eld elderliness fogeydom geezerdom golden years oldhood senescence senectitude superannuation twilight years sunset years vetustity majority adulthood historic period long time years geezerhood senesce get on mature maturate

Antonyms

youth rejuvenate youngen youthen

Etymology

From Middle English age, Old French aage, eage, edage, from an assumed Vulgar Latin *aetāticum, derived from Latin aetātem, itself derived from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyu- (“vital force”). Compare French âge. Displaced native Old English ieldu.
The verb is from Middle English agen, from the noun. Originally found mostly as a participial adjective, probably an adjective in -ed, derived from the noun, reanalyzed to create a verb; perhaps modeled on such pairs as Latin senēscō (seneō; verb) / senex (adjective) and Middle French vieillir (verb) / vieil (adjective). Also compare Old French se aagier, eogier (“become of age”).

Probably from Latin age, imperative of Latin agere.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
  2. noun That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth
  3. verb To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
  4. verb To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.

Etymology [OF. aage, eage, F. âge, fr. L. aetas through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr. aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf. Each.]

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

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