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

plum

/plʌm/ noun, adjective, adverb, verb, proper noun

Forms plums plumming plummed plumb

  1. noun An edible, fleshy stone fruit of species Prunus domestica (European plum) and Prunus americana American plum, often of a dark red or purple colour.
  2. noun A stone-fruit tree which bears this fruit, Prunus domestica.
  3. noun Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan).
  4. noun Prunus salicina (Chinese plum or Japanese plum).
  5. noun Prunus spinosa (sloe).
  6. noun Prunus ursina (bear's plum).
  7. noun Prunus americana (American plum).
  8. noun Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum or sand plum).
  9. adjective (comparable) Of a dark bluish-red colour.
  10. adjective (not comparable) Choice; especially lavish or preferred. “She landed a plum position as an executive for the firm.”
  11. adjective Plumb.
  12. adverb Completely; utterly. “You're going to think I'm plum crazy for this, but I want to adopt all seven kittens.”
  13. verb (mining, transitive) To plumb.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Plum Creek (Allegheny River tributary).
  16. proper noun A township in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
  17. proper noun An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Texas, United States.
  18. proper noun A village in Le Mont-Dore commune, New Caledonia.

Synonyms

ume plum-color plum tree plumtree plum-colored plumb clean

Etymology

From Middle English plomme, ploume, from Old English plūme, from Proto-West Germanic *plūmā, borrowed from Latin prūnum. Doublet of prune.

Phonetically-based spelling of plumb.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
  2. noun A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.

Etymology [AS.plume, fr. L. prunum; akin to Gr. Prune a dried plum.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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