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accent

English

  1. 🔊 a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
  2. 🔊 distinctive manner of oral expression
    “he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent”
  3. 🔊 special importance or significance
    “the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis”
  4. 🔊 the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
    “he put the stress on the wrong syllable”
  5. 🔊 the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
    “the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English”
  6. 🔊 put stress on
    “In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word”
  7. 🔊 to stress, single out as important
    “Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 dejo accent
  2. 🔊 tonada accent

Similar words

accent mark stress emphasis speech pattern dialect idiom emphasis stress accentuate stress emphasize emphasise punctuate accentuate alexandrine accent mark accents accentuate accentuation amphibrach amphimacer anacrusis anapest antispast