Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

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)

-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.

duration

/dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms durations

noun An amount of time or a particular time interval. “The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.”
noun (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war. “Rationing will last at least for the duration.”
noun (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

Synonyms

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

Etymology [OF. duration. See Dure.]

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

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

अत्यह्न aty-ahna exceeding a day in duration.
परिमाणक parimāṇaka compass, weight, quantity, duration.
अचिर a-cira not of long duration, brief; not of long date, recent.
परिमाण pari-māṇa measuring, measure, duration, length of time; compass, weight, number, value.
नातिचिर nāti-cira not very long (in time), of no long duration; ( āt or e ), ind. in no very long time, soon.
आयुष्क āyuṣka (with Jainas) union or connection with the body or person; that which proclaims ( kāyate ) age ( āyus ) or d…
होरा horā the rising of a zodiacal sign; part of the duration of a sign; an hour; a mark, line; a particular scientifi…
ध्रौव्य dhrauvya fixedness, firmness, immovableness, uninterrupted rest; duration; certainty, necessity; ( as, etc.), conferr…