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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

destiny

/ˈdɛs.tɪ.ni/ noun, proper noun

Forms destinies

  1. noun That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined or inevitable eventual state; a condition predestined by the Divine or by human will. “Death is the destiny of all mortal men.”
  2. noun One's eventual fate (not necessarily inevitable or predestined).
  3. noun The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; an irresistible power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual. “Dara doesn't believe in using dating apps - she insists that destiny will find her other half.”
  4. proper noun An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida, United States.
  5. proper noun A female given name from English.

Synonyms

fate lot orlay chance destin doom fatality foredoom foreordination fortune kismet portion predestination predestiny preordination qadar weird wyrd luck circumstances

Etymology

From Middle English destine et al., from Old French destinee, from Latin dēstinō (English destine). Displaced Old English wyrd.

From the noun destiny since the 1970s.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
  2. noun The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

Etymology [OE. destinee, destene, F. destinée, from destiner. See Destine.]

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

Sanskrit

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

All 48 Sanskrit matches →