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

annual

/ˈæn.ju.əl/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms annuals Anoual

  1. adjective Happening once every year. “an annual general meeting; an annual publication”
  2. adjective Of, for, or relating to a whole year, often as a recurring cycle; determined or reckoned by the year; accumulating in the course of a year; performed, executed, or completed over the course of a year. See also circannual. “an annual salary; average annual profits; the annual course of the sun”
  3. adjective (botany, of a plant) Having a life cycle that is completed in only one growing season, e.g., beans, corn, marigold. See Annual plant in Wikipedia. Compare biennial, perennial.
  4. adjective (entomology) Living or lasting just one season or year, as certain insects or insect colonies.
  5. noun An annual publication; a book, periodical, journal, report, comic book, yearbook, etc., which is published serially once a year, which may or may not be in addition to regular weekly or monthly publication. “I read the magazine, but I usually don't purchase the annuals.”
  6. noun (botany) An annual plant; a plant with a life span of just one growing season; a plant which naturally germinates, flowers and dies in one year. Compare biennial, perennial. “I can't wait to plant my annuals in the spring.”
  7. noun A medical checkup taking place once a year.
  8. noun (theater) A pantomime taking place once a year.
  9. proper noun A town in Oriental, Morocco.

Synonyms

yearly yearbook one-year

Antonyms

biennial perennial

Etymology

First attested around 1382, borrowed from Late Latin annuālem, annuālis, related to Latin annālis, adjective form of annus (“year”). Used to categorize plants since 1710.

Borrowed from Spanish Annual.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
  2. adjective Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
  3. noun A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
  4. noun Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.

Etymology [OE. annuel, F. annuel, fr. L. annualis, fr. annus year. Cf. Annals.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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