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

independence

/ˌɪn.dɪˈpɛn.dəns/ noun, proper noun

Forms independences independance

  1. noun The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others. “In 1947, India gained independence from the British Empire.”
  2. noun The state of having sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood.
  3. proper noun An unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California.
  4. proper noun A census-designated place, the county seat of Inyo County, California.
  5. proper noun A ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado.
  6. proper noun An unincorporated community in Warren Township, Warren County, Indiana.
  7. proper noun A city, the county seat of Buchanan County, Iowa.
  8. proper noun A city, the county seat of Montgomery County, Kansas.
  9. proper noun A city in Kentucky, and one of the two county seats of Kenton County.
  10. proper noun A town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

Synonyms

independency

Etymology

From French indépendance. Analyzable as in- + de- + pend + -ence or in- + dependence.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.
  2. noun Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Britain.

Etymology [Cf. F. indépendance.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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