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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authority

UK /ɔːˈθɒɹəti/ · US /əˈθɔɹədi/ noun

Forms authorities authourity authoritie autority auctoritie

  1. noun (uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right. “I have the authority to penalise the staff in my department, but not the authority to sack them.”
  2. noun (plural) Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement. “Authorities say the suspect fled on foot.”
  3. noun (countable) A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject. “the world's foremost authority on orangutans”
  4. noun (uncountable) Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation. “Due to being inadequate for the deductive method of reasoning, the argument from authority is considered a logical fallacy.”
  5. noun (uncountable) Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity.
  6. noun (countable) A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit. “New York Port Authority”

Synonyms

command rulership sovereignty control gravitas cred jurisdiction leave sanction allowance authorization clearance consent license mandate permission permit warrant authorisation potency dominance say-so assurance self-assurance confidence self-confidence sureness agency federal agency government agency

Antonyms

impotence powerlessness

Etymology

From Middle English auctorite, autorite (“authority, book or quotation that settles an argument”), from Old French auctorité, from Latin stem of auctōritās (“invention, advice, opinion, influence, command”), from auctor (“master, leader, author”). For the presence of the h, compare the etymology of author.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.
  2. noun Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities.

Etymology [OE. autorite, auctorite, F. autorité, fr. L. auctoritas, fr. auctor. See Author, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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