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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career

UK /kəˈɹɪə/ · US /kəˈɹɪɹ/ noun, verb, adjective

Forms careers careering careered

  1. noun One’s calling in life; one's working occupation or profession, especially when pursued seriously or over a long period of time.
  2. noun The course, evolution, and ongoing advancement of one's working life, especially in one particular field. “Washington’s career as a soldier”
  3. noun The general course of one's action or conduct in life, or in a particular area of life.
  4. noun (archaic) Speed.
  5. noun A jouster's path during a joust.
  6. noun (obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
  7. noun (falconry) The flight of a hawk.
  8. noun (obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
  9. verb To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way. “The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.”
  10. adjective Doing something professionally, for a living (generally said of something that is not a commonplace job, e.g. criminal activity). “a career burglar”
  11. adjective (loosely) Synonym of serial (“doing something regularly”). “a career rapist”

Synonyms

careen serial calling vocation life history

Etymology

Mid 16th century, from French carrière (“road; racecourse”), from Italian carriera, from Old Occitan carreira, from Late Latin carrāria based on Latin carrus (“wheeled vehicle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós, from *ḱers- (“to run”); alternatively, from Middle French carriere, from Old Occitan.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A race course: the ground run over.
  2. noun A running; full speed; a rapid course.
  3. verb To move or run rapidly.

Etymology [F. carrière race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See Car.]

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

Sanskrit

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