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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freedom

UK /ˈfɹiːdəm/ · US /ˈfɹi.dəm/ noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms freedoms

  1. noun (uncountable) The state of being free. “Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.”
  2. noun (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained. “Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.”
  3. noun The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access “Freedom of a city”
  4. noun Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
  5. noun Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
  6. adjective (humorous) American. “freedom units (nickname for Imperial system), freedom fries”
  7. proper noun A census-designated place in Santa Cruz County, California.
  8. proper noun A settlement in Wilkinson County, Georgia.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in both Caribou County, Idaho and Lincoln County, Wyoming.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Owen County, Indiana.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky.
  12. proper noun A town in Waldo County, Maine.
  13. proper noun A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri.

Synonyms

freehood freeness liberty license exemption

Antonyms

bondage constraint imprisonment slavery unfreedom

Etymology

From Middle English fredom, freedom, from Old English frēodōm (“freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijadōm (“freedom”). Equivalent to free + -dom. Cognate with North Frisian fridoem (“freedom”), Dutch vrijdom (“freedom”), Low German frīdom (“freedom”), Middle High German vrītuom (“freedom”), Norwegian fridom (“freedom”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.
  2. noun Privileges; franchises; immunities.

Etymology [AS. freód; freófree + -dom. See Free, and -dom.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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