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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culmination

UK /ˌkʌl.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌkʌl.məˈneɪ.ʃən/ noun

Forms culminations

  1. noun (astronomy) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body; passage across the meridian; transit.
  2. noun (UK, Canada) An endpoint arrived at after some series of actions or events, or some period, usually after the series or period has ended. The sum of something.
  3. noun (US) An attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
  4. noun (US, education) A ceremony marking the completion of studies at an elementary school, middle school or junior high school.

Synonyms

apogee climax completion closing windup mop up

Etymology

Borrowed from French culmination, from culminer, or from Medieval Latin culminatus + -tion. Morphologically culminate + -ion.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
  2. noun Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.

Etymology [Cf. F.culmination]

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

Sanskrit

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