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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classical

/ˈklæs.ɪ.k(ə)l/ adjective, noun

Forms classicals

  1. adjective Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
  3. adjective (music) Describing Western music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
  4. adjective (informal, music) Describing art music (rather than pop, jazz, blues, etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
  5. adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
  6. adjective Knowledgeable or skilled in the classics; versed in the classics.
  7. adjective Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined “classical dance”
  8. adjective (physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
  9. noun (countable) One that is classical in some way; for example, a classical economist.

Synonyms

traditional conventional canonical ancient Hellenic Roman classic classical music serious music authoritative definitive Greco-Roman Graeco-Roman

Antonyms

modern experimental popular contemporary quantum relativistic nonclassical

Etymology

See classic § Etymology for history. By surface analysis, class + -ical or classic + -al or class + -ic + -al

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage. Byron.
  2. adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.

Etymology [L. classicus relating to the classes of the Roman people, and especially to the frist class; hence, of the first rank, superior, from classis class: cf. F. classique. See Class, n.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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