Usually means: Marks added to letters, modifying.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word diacritic:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. diacritic: Merriam-Webster
  2. diacritic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diacritic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diacritic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diacritic: Vocabulary.com
  6. diacritic: Wordnik
  7. diacritic: Wiktionary
  8. diacritic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diacritic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. diacritic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Diacritic, diacritic: Dictionary.com
  12. diacritic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Diacritic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Diacritic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. diacritic: Rhymezone
  16. Diacritic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. diacritic: FreeDictionary.org
  18. diacritic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. diacritic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. diacritic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. diacritic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Diacritic: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  3. Diacritic: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. diacritic: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Diacritic: Unicode Glossary
  2. diacritic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. diacritic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  distinguishing
adjective:  (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
noun:  A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

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