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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majority

UK /məˈd͡ʒɒ.ɹɪti/ · US /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪti/ noun

Forms majorities

  1. noun More than half (50%) of some group. “The majority agreed that the new proposal was the best.”
  2. noun (uncommon, loosely) Any share or fraction that is bigger than any one of its counterpart shares or fractions (of the same whole).
  3. noun In a parliament or legislature, the difference in seats between the ruling party and the opposition; (UK) in an election, the difference in votes between the winning candidate and the second-place candidate, or between the winning candidate and all of the other candidates combined. “The ruling party had a narrow three-seat majority in the legislature.”
  4. noun (dated) Legal adulthood, age of majority. “By the time I reached my majority, I had already been around the world twice.”
  5. noun (UK) The office held by a member of the armed forces in the rank of major. “On receiving the news of his promotion, Charles Snodgrass said he was delighted to be entering his majority.”
  6. noun Ancestors; ancestry.

Synonyms

absolute majority bulk legal age

Antonyms

minority

Etymology

From Middle French maiorité, from Medieval Latin maiōritātem, accusative of Latin maiōritās, from Latin maior (“greater”). Morphologically major + -ity.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
  2. noun The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

Etymology [F. majorité. See Major.]

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

Sanskrit

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