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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world

UK /wɜːld/ · US /wɝld/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms worlds worlding worlded vurld

  1. noun (with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general; the reality we live in. “In retrospect, the process of economic globalization has meant the end of the world as we knew it.”
  2. noun (with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually. “The period immediately following my divorce seemed like the end of my world.”
  3. noun (metonymic, with "the") A majority of people. “Running after God is the only life worth living. Even though the world believes that living for God is boring, we believe that there is nothing more exciting.”
  4. noun The Universe.
  5. noun (with "the") The Earth, especially in a geopolitical or cultural context, or as the physical planet. “People are dying of starvation all over the world.”
  6. noun (with "a") Any of several possible scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context. “Who would want to live in a world like this?”
  7. noun (countable) (Several) alternative scenarios concerning The Earth, either as the physical planet, or in a geopolitical, cultural or societal context.
  8. noun (countable) A distinct realm, capable of containing objects or inhabitants, which does not physically border other similar realms.
  9. verb (transitive) To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focusing on national or other distinctions; compare globalize.
  10. verb (transitive) To make real; to make worldly.
  11. proper noun Earth: the Earth (our earth).
  12. proper noun The Universe: our universe.
  13. proper noun Existence.
  14. proper noun The Third World (the third world).
  15. proper noun The First World (the first world).
  16. proper noun The Second World (the second world).
  17. proper noun The Fourth World (the fourth world).
  18. proper noun The Industrialized World (the industrialized world).

Synonyms

the earth Earth the globe God's green earth Sol III the planet circle universe existence creation cosmos macrocosm domain reality globe populace public worldly concern earthly concern human race humanity humankind human beings humans mankind man global planetary worldwide world-wide

Etymology

From Middle English world, from Old English weorold (“world”), from Proto-West Germanic *weraldi, from Proto-Germanic *weraldiz (“lifetime, human existence, world”, literally “age/era of man”), equivalent to wer (“man”) + eld (“age”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English mounde (“world”), from Old French monde, munde (“world”).
Cognate with Scots warld (“world”), North Frisian Wārel, wäält, wråål (“world”), Saterland Frisian Waareld (“world”), West Frisian wrâld (“world”), Afrikaans wêreld (“world”), Bavarian Wöd (“world”), Dutch wereld (“world”), German, Luxembourgish Welt (“world”), German Low German Wereld, Werld (“world”), Vilamovian wełt (“world”), Yiddish וועלט (velt, “world”), Danish verden (“world”), Elfdalian wärd (“world”), Faroese verð, verøld (“world”), Icelandic veröld (“world”), Norn vrildan (“the earth”), Norwegian Bokmål verd, verden (“(the) world”), Norwegian Nynorsk verd (“world”), Swedish värld (“world”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.
  2. noun Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds. "Lord of the worlds above." I. Watts.

Etymology [OE. world, werld, weorld, weoreld, AS. weorold, worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men, humanity. Cf. Werewolf, Old.]

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

Sanskrit

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