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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dinner

UK /ˈdɪnə/ · US /ˈdɪnɚ/ noun, verb

Forms dinners dinnering dinnered

  1. noun The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening. “I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.”
  2. noun An evening meal. “I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.”
  3. noun A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
  4. noun A meal given to an animal. “Give the dog its dinner.”
  5. noun A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion. “My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.”
  6. noun (uncountable) The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
  7. verb (intransitive) To eat a dinner.
  8. verb (transitive) To provide (someone) with a dinner.

Synonyms

supper tea lunch luncheon chow banquet feast dine dinner party

Etymology

From Middle English dyner, from Old French disner (“lunch”, but originally “breakfast”), (modern French dîner), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnō, *disiūnāre from Latin dis- + iēiūnō (“to break the fast”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour.
  2. noun An entertainment; a feast.

Etymology [F. dîner, fr. dîner to dine. See Dine.]

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

Sanskrit

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