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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noon

UK /nuːn/ · US /nun/ noun, verb, proper noun

Also a form of nun

Forms noons nooning nooned

  1. noun The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon. “On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.”
  2. noun The mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks.
  3. noun (now rare) The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.
  4. noun (obsolete) The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
  5. noun (figurative) The highest point; culmination.
  6. verb (intransitive) To relax or sleep around midday.
  7. noun The letter ن in the Arabic script.
  8. proper noun A surname.
  9. noun (countable) An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.
  10. noun (uncountable) The language of these people.

Synonyms

noon of night nones midday capstone noontide twelve sleep twelve noon high noon noonday

Antonyms

midnight

Etymology

From Middle English noen, none, non, from Old English nōn (“the ninth hour”), from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nōna (“ninth hour”) (short for nōna hōra), feminine of nōnus (“ninth”). Cognate with Dutch noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective No. See the Note under No. [Obs.]
  2. noun The middle of the day; midday; the time when the sun is in the meridian; twelve o'clock in the daytime.
  3. noun Hence, the highest point; culmination.
  4. adjective Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional. Young.

Etymology [AS. n, orig., the ninth hour, fr. L.nona (sc. hora) the ninth hour, then applied to the church services (called nones) at that hour, the time of which was afterwards changed to noon. See Nine, and cf. Nones, Nunchion.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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