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

eden

/ˈiː.dən/ proper noun, noun

Forms edens

  1. proper noun (biblical) A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.
  2. proper noun An English surname, probably derived from a place name.
  3. proper noun A female given name from Hebrew from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).
  4. proper noun A coastal town in New South Wales, Australia.
  5. proper noun A small unincorporated community in Graham County, Arizona.
  6. proper noun A city and town in Jerome County, Idaho.
  7. proper noun An unincorporated community in Peoria County, Illinois.
  8. proper noun An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
  9. noun (by extension, countable) A paradise on Earth. “The first explorers saw America as an Eden.”
  10. noun (by extension, uncountable) A state of innocence.
  11. proper noun A river in Cumbria, England, which passes Carlisle and empties into the Solway Firth.
  12. proper noun A river in Kent, England, which flows into the Medway; the name is a back-formation of Edenbridge.
  13. proper noun A river in Fife council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
  14. proper noun A small river in the Scottish Borders council area, which flows into the River Tweed; in full, Eden Water.
  15. proper noun A former local government district in Cumbria, England, formed in 1974 and named after the Cumbrian river, with its headquarters in Penrith; abolished in 2023 and merged into Westmorland and Furness; in full, Eden District.
  16. proper noun A residential settlement in County Antrim, Ireland.
  17. proper noun Three townlands in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
  18. proper noun A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Synonyms

paradise nirvana heaven promised land Shangri-la Garden of Eden

Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗḏen), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).

* The river in Cumbria is from the Roman name, British Latin Ituna. The rivers in Scotland are also related to the root of this name.
* The river in Kent is back-formed from Edenbridge, from Old English *Eadhelmesbrycg (“Eadhelm's bridge”) (attested as Eadelmesbregge c. 1100).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Etymology [Heb. eden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.]

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