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say it: EE-juhs
aegis is a noun meaning "kindly endorsement and guidance". It is pronounced /ˈidʒəs/ — EE-juhs. It carries 2 recorded senses.
kindly endorsement and guidance
“the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council”
armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aegis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.