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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pulpit

/ˈpʊlpɪt/ noun

Forms pulpits

  1. noun (Christianity, countable) A raised platform in a church, sometimes enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon; also, the lectern on such a platform.
  2. noun (uncountable) Activity associated with or usually performed from a church pulpit; preaching, sermons, religious teaching.
  3. noun (uncountable) The preaching profession, office, or role in general; the pastorate, the priesthood, the ministry.
  4. noun (uncountable) Preachers collectively; clergy; the priesthood.
  5. noun (countable) An individual or particular preaching position or role; a pastorate. “He seems like too timid a man to fill the pulpit at such a large church.”
  6. noun (by extension) Bully pulpit.
  7. noun (countable) Any lectern, podium, dais, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
  8. noun (countable, nautical) The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck; also called bow pulpit. The railing at the stern is sometimes called the stern pulpit or the pushpit.

Synonyms

platform soapbox tribune office cockpit dais podium rostrum ambo stump

Etymology

From Middle English pulpit, from Old French pulpite and Latin pulpitum (“platform”). Doublet of pulpitum and polypus. Piecewise doublet of polypod.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.
  2. noun The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.
  3. adjective Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

Etymology [L. pulpitum: cf. OF. pulpite, F. pulpitre.]

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

Sanskrit

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