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...
- 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...
- this article, see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters. The grave accent (◌̀) (/ɡreɪv/ or /ɡrɑːv/) is a diacritical mark used to varying degrees...
- English, is an accent and dialect of English ****ociated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive...
- 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...
- 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...
- see Wikipedia Media help. The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a consciously learned accent of English, fashionably used by the American...
- American accent. The sound of American English continues to evolve, with some local accents disappearing, but several larger regional accents having emerged...