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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husband

/ˈhʌzbənd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms husbands husbanding husbanded

  1. noun A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse. “You should start dating so you can find a suitable husband.”
  2. noun (UK) A manager of property; one who has the care of another's belongings, owndom, or interests; a steward; an economist.
  3. noun (archaic) A prudent or frugal manager.
  4. noun (somewhat dated) The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
  5. noun A tiller of the ground; a husbandman.
  6. noun The male of a pair of animals.
  7. noun A large cushion with arms meant to support a person in the sitting position. “While reading her book, Sally leaned back against her husband, wishing it were the human kind.”
  8. noun (UK dialectal) A polled tree; a pollard.
  9. verb (transitive) To manage or administer carefully and frugally; use to the best advantage; economise.
  10. verb (transitive) To conserve.
  11. verb (transitive, obsolete) To till; cultivate; farm; nurture.
  12. verb (transitive, archaic) To provide with a husband.
  13. verb (transitive) To engage or act as a husband to; assume the care of or responsibility for; accept as one's own.
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun An unincorporated community in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States, named after Harmon Husband.

Synonyms

hubby mister husband pillow baron his lordship lord and master old man married man conserve economize economise

Antonyms

wife

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English husbonde, from Old English hūsbonda, from hūs + bonda. Calque of Old Norse húsbóndi. By surface analysis, house + bond.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]
  2. noun A cultivator; a tiller; a husbandman. [Obs.] Shak.
  3. verb To direct and manage with frugality; to use or employ to good purpose and the best advantage; to spend, apply, or use, with economy.
  4. verb To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.]

Etymology [OE. hosebonde, husbonde, a husband, the master of the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, Goth. bauan. See House Be, and cf. Bond a slave, Boor.]

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

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