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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bishop

/ˈbɪʃəp/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms bishops bishoping bishopping bishoped bishopped byshop Bishopp

  1. noun (Christianity) An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church hierarchy (actively or nominally) governing a diocese, supervising the church's priests, deacons, and property in its territory.
  2. noun (religion, nonstandard) A similar official or chief priest in another religion.
  3. noun (obsolete) The holder of the Greek or Roman position of episcopus, supervisor over the public dole of grain, etc.
  4. noun (obsolete) Any watchman, inspector, or overlooker.
  5. noun A chief of the Festival of Fools or St. Nicholas Day.
  6. noun (chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
  7. noun Any of various African birds of the genus Euplectes; a kind of weaverbird closely related to the widowbirds.
  8. noun (dialectal) A ladybug or ladybird, beetles of the family Coccinellidae.
  9. verb (Christianity) To act as a bishop, to perform the duties of a bishop, especially to confirm another's membership in the church.
  10. verb (by extension, jocularly, obsolete) To confirm (in its other senses).
  11. verb (Christianity) To make a bishop.
  12. verb (Christianity, rare) To provide with bishops.
  13. verb (UK, dialectal) To permit food (especially milk) to burn while cooking (from bishops' role in the inquisition or as mentioned in the quotation below, of horses).
  14. verb (by extension, of equestrianism) To make a horse seem younger, particularly by manipulation of its teeth.
  15. verb (UK, colloquial, obsolete) To murder by drowning.
  16. proper noun (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation.
  17. proper noun (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
  18. proper noun A city in Inyo County, California; named for nearby Bishop Creek, itself named for early settler Samuel Addison Bishop.
  19. proper noun A town in Oconee County, Georgia; named for local landowner W. H. Bishop.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Forest City Township, Mason County, Illinois; named for landowner Henry Bishop.

Synonyms

diocesan bishop suffragan bishop ordinary hierarch consecrator

Etymology

From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskop, from Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare also Middle English bisp (“bishop”).
* The Tyndale Bible uses native English overseer instead.

Eponymous, from the surname Bishop.

From bishop.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
  2. noun In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see. Bishop in partibus [infidelium] (R. C. Ch.), a bishop of a see which does not actually exist; one who has the office of bishop, without especial jurisdiction. Shipley.
  3. verb To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, to receive formally to favor.
  4. verb To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.

Etymology [OE. bischop, biscop, bisceop, AS. bisceop, biscop, L. episcopus overseer, superintendent, bishop, fr. Gr. , over + inspector, fr. root of , , to look to, perh. akin to L. specere to look at. See Spy, and cf. Episcopal.]

Etymology [From the name of the scoundrel who first practiced it. Youatt.]

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