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

“smiled” is a form of

smile

/ˈsmaɪl/ noun, verb

Forms smiles smiling smiled

  1. noun A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety. “She's got a perfect smile.”
  2. noun (figurative) Favour; propitious regard. “the smile of the gods”
  3. noun (slang, dated) A drink bought by one person for another.
  4. verb (ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face. “When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.”
  5. verb (transitive) To express by smiling. “to smile consent, or a welcome”
  6. verb (intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
  7. verb (intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy. “The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.”
  8. verb (intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance. “The gods smiled on his labours.”
  9. verb (intransitive) Of ackee fruit: to open fully, indicating that it is no longer toxic, and ready to be picked.

Synonyms

treat smiling grin grinning

Etymology

From Middle English smilen (“to smile”), from Middle Low German *smîlen (“to smile”), from Middle High German smielen, from Old High German smielēn, from Proto-West Germanic *smīlēn, from Proto-Germanic *smīlāną (“to smile”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, be glad, wonder”).
Cognate with Danish smile, Swedish smila, Faroese smíla (“to smile”); also Saterland Frisian smielje (“to smile”), Low German smielen (“to smile”), Dutch smuilen (“to smile”), Middle High German smielen (“to smile”). Related also to Old High German smierōn (“to smile”), Old English smerian (“to laugh at”), Old English smercian, smearcian ("to smile"; > English smirk), Latin mīror (“to wonder at”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
  2. verb To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
  3. verb To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.
  4. verb To affect in a certain way with a smile. [R.]

Etymology [OE. smilen; akin to Dan. smile, Sw. smila, MHG. smielen, smieren, L. mirari to wonder at, Skr. smi to smile; and probably to E. smicker. sq. root173. Cf. Admire, Marvel, Smirk.]

Etymology [CF. Dan. smiil, Sw. smil. See Smile, v. i.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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