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say it: in-KWAHY-ree
inquiry is a noun meaning "a search for knowledge". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈkwaɪˌɹi/ — in-KWAHY-ree. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a search for knowledge
“their pottery deserves more research than it has received”
an instance of questioning
“there was a question about my training”
“we made inquiries of all those who were present”
a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest
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 inquiry 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.