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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success

/səkˈsɛs/ noun, proper noun

Forms successes successe

  1. noun The achievement of one's aim or goal. “His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.”
  2. noun (business) Financial profitability. “Don't let success go to your head.”
  3. noun One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals. “Scholastically, he was a success.”
  4. noun The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame. “She is country music's most recent success.”
  5. noun (obsolete) Something which happens as a consequence; the outcome or result.
  6. proper noun A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
  7. proper noun A town in Clay County, Arkansas.
  8. proper noun A ghost town in Jasper County, Mississippi.
  9. proper noun An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated township in Coos County, New Hampshire.
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Meigs County, Ohio.
  12. proper noun A village in Saskatchewan, Canada.
  13. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

hit éclat achiever winner succeeder

Antonyms

failure

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Act of succeeding; succession. [Obs.]
  2. noun That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.

Etymology [L. successus: cf. F. succès. See Succeed.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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