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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paradise

/ˈpæɹədaɪs/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms paradises paradising paradised paradize

  1. noun (chiefly religion) The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. “Living in paradise comes with a price.”
  2. noun (figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation. “an island paradise in the Caribbean”
  3. noun (figuratively) An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc. “a shoppers’ paradise”
  4. noun (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.
  5. noun (architecture, obsolete) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
  6. noun (obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.
  7. noun (slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.
  8. noun A cake, often as a paradise slice.
  9. verb To place (as) in paradise.
  10. verb (obsolete) To transform into a paradise.
  11. verb (obsolete, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.
  12. proper noun (religion) Heaven.
  13. proper noun (religion) The Garden of Eden.
  14. proper noun A town in Grenada.
  15. proper noun A village in Suriname.
  16. proper noun A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
  17. proper noun A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
  18. proper noun A town in Butte County, California.
  19. proper noun A census-designated place in Mono County, California.

Synonyms

Heaven earthly paradise rose garden Eden Shangri-La Peach Blossom Spring utopia Arcadia Arcady Avalon kingdom come nirvana sweet hereafter happy hunting ground imparadise entrance bewitch promised land

Etymology

From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.

The town in Newfoundland is named after Houmet Paradis near Guernsey.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
  2. noun The abode of sanctified souls after death.
  3. verb To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [R.] Marston.

Etymology [OE. & F. paradis, L. paradisus, fr. Gr. para`deisos park, paradise, fr. Zend pairidaeza an inclosure; pairi around (akin to Gr. diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr. dih to smear, and E. dough. Cf. Parvis.]

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

Sanskrit

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