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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broad

UK /bɹɔːd/ · US /bɹɔd/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms broader broadest broads

  1. adjective Wide in extent or scope. “three feet broad”
  2. adjective Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  3. adjective Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained.
  4. adjective Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  5. adjective Plain; evident. “a broad hint”
  6. adjective General rather than specific. “to be in broad agreement”
  7. adjective (writing) Unsubtle; obvious.
  8. adjective Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  9. noun (UK) A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk.
  10. noun A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.
  11. noun (UK, historical) A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656.
  12. noun (film, television) A kind of floodlight.
  13. noun (slang, archaic) A playing card.
  14. noun (US, dated) A prostitute, a woman of loose morals.
  15. noun (US, slang, somewhat dated) A woman or girl.
  16. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

abandons alley cat almah bangtail Bankside lady bargirl bat beotch blouze blowen blowsabella brass nail brasser brass business girl calico queen callet cat chippy chromo wide across-the-board all-embracing all-encompassing all-inclusive blanket encompassing extensive panoptic unspecific

Antonyms

thin narrow skinny all-encompassing slender

Etymology

From Middle English brood, brode, from Old English brād (“broad, flat, open, extended, spacious, wide, ample, copious”), from Proto-West Germanic *braid, from Proto-Germanic *braidaz (“broad, wide”), of uncertain origin.
Cognate with Yola brode (“broad”), North Frisian bread, breeđ, briad, briid, briidj (“wide”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian breed (“broad, wide”), Bavarian brad, broad (“broad, wide”), Central Franconian and Luxembourgish breet (“broad, wide”), Dutch breed (“broad, wide”), German breit (“broad, wide”), Vilamovian braat (“broad, wide”), Yiddish ברייט (breyt, “broad, wide”), Danish and Swedish bred (“broad, wide”), Faroese and Icelandic breiður (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Bokmål bred, brei (“broad, wide”), Norwegian Nynorsk brei, breid (“broad, wide”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (braiþs, “broad, wide”).

Early 20th century, apparent phono-semantic matching of German Braut (“bride”, also “girlfriend”, and more generally “broad, chick”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; --opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
  2. adjective Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  3. noun The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
  4. noun The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen. [Local, Eng.] Southey.

Etymology [OE. brod, brad, AS. brad; akin to OS. bred, D. breed, G. breit, Icel. brei, Sw. & Dan. bred, Goth. braids. Cf. Breadth.]

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

Sanskrit

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