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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

“eagles” is a form of

eagle

/ˈiːɡəl/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms eagles eagling eagled the Eagle

  1. noun Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
  2. noun (US, numismatics, historical) A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
  3. noun (historical, numismatics) A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.
  4. noun (golf) A score of two under par for a hole. “I got an eagle in the third hole.”
  5. verb (golf) To score an eagle.
  6. proper noun (codename) The Apollo Lunar Module of Apollo 11.
  7. proper noun A surname transferred from the nickname, from the name of the bird as a byname. See eagle.
  8. proper noun Any of a number of rivers in the United States and Canada.
  9. proper noun A village in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska.
  10. proper noun A town, the county seat of Eagle County, Colorado.
  11. proper noun A city in Ada County, Idaho.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Mountain Township, Saline County, Illinois.
  13. proper noun A township and village therein, in Clinton County, Michigan.
  14. proper noun A village in Cass County, Nebraska.
  15. noun (scouting) An Eagle Scout.
  16. noun (scouting) An advancement to the Eagle Scout rank. “When will Roderick get his Eagle?”

Synonyms

erne broadwing bird of Jove double birdie

Etymology

From Middle English egle, from Anglo-Norman egle, from Old French aigle, from Latin aquila. Displaced native Middle English ern, earn, arn, from Old English earn (“eagle”). More at erne.

* As an English surname, from the noun eagle.
* As an English surname of Norman origin, from L'Aigle in Orne, first attested in 1055 and from Latin aquila, itself meaning "eagle."
* Also translated from names in other languages meaning "eagle," such as German Adler, Polish Orzeł, Orzel, Slovene Orel, Lakota waŋbli (compare Eagleman, Redeagle, Whiteeagle).
* The name of the English village is believed to be from Old English āc (“oak”) + lēah: compare with Acle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliæetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight.
  2. noun A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars.

Etymology [OE. egle, F. aigle, fr. L. aquila; prob. named from its color, fr. aquilus dark-colored, brown; cf. Lith. aklas blind. Cf. Aquiline.]

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

Sanskrit

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