Definition of Accent. Meaning of Accent. Synonyms of Accent

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Definition of Accent

Accent
Accent Ac*cent", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accented; p. pr. & vb. n. Accenting.] [OF. accenter, F. accentuer.] 1. To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent. 2. To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

Meaning of Accent from wikipedia

- Accent may refer to: Look up accent, accentuate, or accentuation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Accent (sociolinguistics), way of pronunciation particular...
- specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Accents may be written into...
- The Hyundai Accent (Korean: 현대 엑센트), or Hyundai Verna (현대 베르나) is a subcompact car produced by Hyundai. In Australia, the first generation models carried...
- The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is endemic to the Old World. This small group of closely related p****erines are all...
- Gr****, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Gr**** name of the accented syllable was and...
- files, see Wikipedia Media help. A Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is any of various accents of English that are perceived as blending features...
- meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. The grave accent (◌̀) (/ɡreɪv/ GRAYV or /ɡrɑːv/ GRAHV) is a diacritical mark used to varying...
- sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified...
- predominant language. The United Kingdom has a wide variety of accents, and no single "British accent" exists. This article provides an overview of the numerous...
- In English poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an...