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

affluent

/ˈæf.lu.ənt/ noun, adjective

Forms affluents

  1. noun Someone who is wealthy.
  2. noun A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream; a tributary.
  3. adjective Abundant; copious; plenteous.
  4. adjective (by extension) Abounding in goods or riches; having a moderate level of material wealth. “They were affluent, but aspired to true wealth.”
  5. adjective (dated) Tributary.
  6. adjective (obsolete) Flowing to; flowing abundantly.

Synonyms

capitalist fat cat HNWI moneybags rich person influent feeder tributary confluent flush loaded moneyed wealthy

Antonyms

indigent

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French affluent, borrowed in turn from Latin affluentem, accusative singular of affluēns, present active participle of affluō (“flow to or towards; overflow with”), from ad (“to, towards”) + fluō (“flow”) (cognate via latter to fluid, flow). Sense of “wealthy” (plentiful flow of goods) c. 1600, which also led to nominalization affluence. By surface analysis, af- + fluent.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." Harvey.
  2. adjective Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches.
  3. noun A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; a tributary stream.

Etymology [Cf. F. affluent, L. affluens, -entis, p. pr. See Affluence.]

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

Sanskrit

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