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

red

/ɹɛd/ noun, adjective, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of rede

Forms reds redder reddest redding redded

  1. noun (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour. “Red can be seen as hot or angry.”
  2. noun (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  3. noun (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  4. noun (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
  5. noun (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
  6. noun (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
  7. noun (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
  8. noun (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
  9. adjective Of a red hue. “The girl wore a red skirt.”
  10. adjective (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. “Her hair had red highlights.”
  11. adjective (of the skin) Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
  12. adjective (of a dog or its coat) Having a brown color.
  13. adjective (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”) “I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.”
  14. adjective Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany. “the red-black grand coalition in Germany”
  15. adjective (US politics) The U.S. Republican Party. “a red state”
  16. adjective (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
  17. interjection (BDSM, procedure word) Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.
  18. noun A Communist.
  19. noun A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
  20. noun (xiangqi) The player moving the red pieces.

Synonyms

redskin redbird red devil carmine cinnabar claret crimson rosé scarlet vermilion ruby-red cherry-red cerise cardinal-red wine-red claret-red blood-red coral-red cochineal-red rose-red redness Red River Bolshevik Marxist bolshie bolshy loss red ink reddish ruddy

Antonyms

nonred unred antired

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós.
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

From the archaic verb rede.

Webster’s 1913

  1. . imp. & p. p. of Read. Spenser.
  2. verb To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; --generally with up; as, to red up a house.
  3. adjective Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. "Fresh flowers, white and reede." Chaucer.
  4. noun The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these. "Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue." Milton.

Etymology [OE. red, reed, AS. re, re; akin to OS. r, OFries, r, D. rood, G. roht, rot, OHG. r, Dan. & Sw. r, Icel. rau, rj, Goth. r, W. rhudd, Armor. ruz, Ir. & Gael. ruadh, L. ruber, rufus, Gr. , Skr. rudhira, rohita; cf. L. rutilus. sq. root113. Cr. Erysipelas, Rouge, Rubric, Ruby, Ruddy, Russet, Rust.]

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

Sanskrit

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