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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

“wards” is a form of

ward

UK /wɔːd/ · US /wɔɹd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms wards warding warded warde

  1. noun (archaic or obsolete) A warden; a guard; a guardian or watchman.
  2. noun The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.)
  3. noun Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
  4. noun (fantasy) An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area or social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering; approaching; or even being able to locate said protected premises or demographic.
  5. noun (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
  6. noun (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
  7. noun An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
  8. noun A section or subdivision of a prison.
  9. noun An administrative division of a borough, city or council. “On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor’s palace.”
  10. verb (transitive) To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
  11. verb (transitive) To defend, to protect.
  12. verb (transitive) To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches. (usually followed by off)
  13. verb (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
  14. verb (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
  15. proper noun (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation for a guard or watchman.
  16. proper noun (countable) An English male given name.
  17. proper noun A parish of Castleknock, Fingal, Ireland.
  18. proper noun A river in Ireland; in full, Ward River.
  19. proper noun A small town in Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand, named after Joseph Ward.
  20. proper noun An unincorporated community in Sumter County, Alabama.

Synonyms

ward off hospital ward Barbara Ward Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Mrs. Humphrey Ward Mary Augusta Arnold Ward Montgomery Ward Aaron Montgomery Ward cellblock guard

Etymology

From Middle English warde, from Old English weard (“keeper, watchman, guard, guardian, protector; lord, king; possessor”), from Proto-Germanic *warduz (“guard, keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Cognate with Dutch waard, German Wart.

From Middle English ward, warde, from Old English weard (“watching, ward, protection, guardianship; advance post; waiting for, lurking, ambuscade”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardu, from Proto-Germanic *wardō (“protection, attention, keeping”), an extension of the stem *wara- (“attentive”) (English wary, beware), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”).
Cognate with German Warte (“watchtower”), warten (“wait for”); English guard is a parallel form which came via Old French.

From Middle English warden, from Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep, protect, preserve; hold, possess, occupy, inhabit; rule, govern”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardēn, from Proto-Germanic *wardōną, *wardāną (“to guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, defend”). Doublet of guard.

* As an English surname, from the noun ward and related cognates such as warden, guard etc.
* As an Irish surname, reduced from McWard, from mac an bard (“son of the poet”).
* As a Jewish surname, adapted from Warshawski, named after Warsaw. Comparable to Warszawski.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Guerin.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act of guarding; watch; guard; guardianship; specifically, a guarding during the day. See the Note under Watch, n., 1.
  2. noun One who, or that which, guards; garrison; defender; protector; means of guarding; defense; protection.
  3. verb To keep in safety; to watch; to guard; formerly, in a specific sense, to guard during the day time.
  4. verb To defend; to protect.

Etymology [AS. weard, fem., guard, weard, ward a watcher, warden, G. wart, OHG. wart, Icel. vör a warden, a watch, Goth. -wards in daúrawards a doorkeeper, and E. wary; cf. OF. warde guard, from the German. See Ware, a., Wary, and cf. Guard, Wraith.]

Etymology [OE. wardien, AS. weardian to keep, protect; akin to OS. ward to watch, take care, OFries. wardia, OHG. wart, G. warten to wait, wait on, attend to, Icel. var to guarantee defend, Sw. vårda to guard, to watch; cf. OF. warder, of German origin. See Ward, n., and cf. Award, Guard, Reward.]

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

Sanskrit

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