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

expectation

/ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms expectations expection

  1. noun The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
  2. noun That which is expected or looked for.
  3. noun An implicit obligation or duty held by another in someone's view. “He struggled with his parents' expectations.”
  4. noun The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything good to come, especially of property or rank.
  5. noun The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
  6. noun (statistics) The first moment; the expected value; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.
  7. noun (statistics, colloquial) The arithmetic mean.
  8. noun (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Synonyms

outlook prospect anticipation arithmetic mean first moment expected value

Etymology

From Middle French expectation, from Latin exspectātiō, from exspectō (“expect”). By surface analysis, expect + -ation. Displaced native Old English wēn.

Webster’s 1913

  1. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen. "In expectation of a guest." Tennyson.
  2. That which is expected or looked for. Why our great expectation should be called The seed of woman. Milton.

Etymology [L. expectio. exspectio: cf. F. expectation.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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