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

“Passages” is a form of

passage

/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms passages passaging passaged

  1. noun A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. “passage of scripture”
  2. noun Part of a path or journey. “He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.”
  3. noun An incident or episode.
  4. noun The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. “The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.”
  5. noun The advance of time.
  6. noun (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  7. noun A passageway or corridor.
  8. noun (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway. “the Northwest Passage”
  9. verb (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium. “He passaged the virus through a series of goats.”
  10. verb (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross. “They passaged to America in 1902.”
  11. adjective (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. “Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.”
  12. noun (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
  13. verb (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

Synonyms

passing transition enactment transit musical passage passageway handing over

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
  2. noun Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.

Etymology [F. passage. See Pass, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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