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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tabernacle

UK /ˈtæbənækl̩/ · US /ˈtæbɚnækl̩/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms tabernacles tabernacling tabernacled

  1. noun Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
  2. noun (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
  3. noun (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
  4. noun Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
  5. noun A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
  6. noun (Roman Catholicism) A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a church.
  7. noun (originally Methodism) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
  8. noun (by extension) Any house of worship, especially a Mormon meetinghouse.
  9. verb (intransitive) To dwell; to abide for a time.
  10. verb (intransitive, figurative) To instill or reside within, as a quality or virtue,
  11. proper noun An unincorporated community in Coffee County, Alabama.
  12. proper noun A township in Burlington County, New Jersey.
  13. proper noun An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.

Synonyms

Mormon Tabernacle synagogue temple

Etymology

From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabernāculum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”). By surface analysis, taberna + -cle.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A slightly built or temporary habitation; especially, a tent.
  2. noun A portable structure of wooden framework covered with curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. Ex. xxvi.
  3. verb To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.

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