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...
- A Baltimore accent, also known as Baltimorese and sometimes humorously spelled Bawlmerese or Ballimorese, is an accent or sub-variety of Delaware Valley...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities...
- ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city...
- / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables...
- 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...