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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visitor

UK /ˈvɪzɪtə/ · US /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ noun

Forms visitors visitour visiter

  1. noun Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
  2. noun Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
  3. noun (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
  4. noun (law) A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
  5. noun (ufology, specifically) An extraterrestrial being on Earth.
  6. noun An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
  7. noun (UK) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
  8. noun (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Synonyms

visitant

Etymology

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.

Webster’s 1913

  1. One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors." Shak.
  2. A superior, or a person lawfully appointed for the purpose, who makes formal visits of inspection to a corporation or an institution.

Etymology [Cf. F. visiteur.]

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

Sanskrit

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

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