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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privacy

UK /ˈpɹɪv.ə.si/ · US /ˈpɹaɪ.və.si/ noun

Forms privacies

  1. noun (uncountable) The state of being secluded from the presence, sight, or knowledge of others. “I need my privacy, so please stay out of my room.”
  2. noun (uncountable) Freedom from unwanted or undue disturbance of one's private life. “Those prying neighbours have robbed me of my sense of privacy.”
  3. noun (uncountable) Freedom from damaging publicity, public scrutiny, surveillance, and disclosure of personal information, usually by a government or a private organization. “Privacy is assumed by many to be among common-law rights.”
  4. noun (countable, obsolete) A place of seclusion.
  5. noun (obsolete, law) A relationship between parties seen as being a result of their mutual interest or participation in a given transaction, contract etc.
  6. noun (obsolete) Secrecy.
  7. noun (countable, obsolete) A private matter.

Synonyms

privity secret privateness seclusion secrecy concealment

Etymology

From priv(ate) + -acy.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The state of being in retirement from the company or observation of others; seclusion.
  2. noun A place of seclusion from company or observation; retreat; solitude; retirement.

Etymology [See Private.]

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

Sanskrit

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