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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hunter

UK /ˈhʌntə/ · US /ˈhʌntɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms hunters

  1. noun One who hunts game for sport or for food; a huntsman or huntswoman.
  2. noun A dog used in hunting; a hunting dog.
  3. noun A horse used in hunting, especially a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
  4. noun One who hunts or seeks after anything. “The hunter becomes the hunted.”
  5. noun (psychology) A person who bottles up their aggression and eventually releases it explosively.
  6. noun A kind of spider, the huntsman or hunting spider.
  7. noun A pocket watch with a spring-hinged circular metal cover that closes over the dial and crystal, protecting them from dust and scratches.
  8. proper noun An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a hunter.
  9. proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
  10. proper noun A river in New South Wales, Australia; flowing 300 km from the Mount Royal Range within Barrington Tops National Park into the Tasman Sea at Newcastle; named for John Hunter, 2nd Governor of New South Wales.
  11. proper noun A river in Western Australia, Australia; flowing 16 km from Donkins Hill near Mitchell River National Park into the Timor Sea; named by Australian explorer Philip Parker King for James Hunter, the surgeon of King's HMS Mermaid.
  12. proper noun An electoral division in New South Wales, Australia.
  13. proper noun A locality in the City of Greater Bendigo, central Victoria, Australia
  14. proper noun A river in northwest Otago, New Zealand; flowing into Lake Hāwea.
  15. proper noun A river in Prince Edward Island, Canada; flowing from near Hartville into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence near North Rustico.

Synonyms

huntsman Orion hunting watch

Etymology

From Middle English huntere, hunter, equivalent to hunt + -er. Compare Old English hunta (“hunter”).

From hunter.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
  2. noun A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak.

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

Sanskrit

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

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