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

procession

/pɹəˈsɛʃən/ noun, verb

Forms processions processioning processioned

  1. noun The act of progressing or proceeding.
  2. noun A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue. “a procession of mourners”
  3. noun A number of things happening in sequence (in space or in time).
  4. noun (ecclesiastical, obsolete, in the plural) Litanies said in procession and not kneeling.
  5. noun (cricket) The rapid dismissal of a series of batsmen.
  6. verb (intransitive) To take part in a procession.
  7. verb (transitive, dated) To honour with a procession.
  8. verb (transitive, law, US, North Carolina, Tennessee) To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of (lands).

Synonyms

process emanation rise progress progression advance advancement forward motion onward motion

Etymology

From Middle English processioun, borrowed from Old French pourciession, from Latin prōcessiō (“a marching forward, an advance, in Late Latin a religious procession”), from prōcēdere, past participle prōcessus (“to move forward, advance, proceed”); see proceed.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course. Bp. Pearson.
  2. noun That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
  3. verb To ascertain, mark, and establish the boundary lines of, as lands. [Local, U. S. (North Carolina and Tennessee).] "To procession the lands of such persons as desire it." Burrill.
  4. verb To march in procession. [R.]

Etymology [F., fr. L. processio. See Proceed.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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