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▸ noun: (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
▸ noun: (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
▸ noun: Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
▸ noun: (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
▸ noun: (informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
▸ noun: (sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
▸ noun: A word; a significant tone or sound.
▸ noun: (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
▸ noun: (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
▸ noun: (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
▸ noun: (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
▸ noun: (music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
▸ noun: (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
▸ noun: (mathematics) A prime symbol.
▸ noun: Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
▸ noun: A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
▸ noun: (archaic) Utterance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mark with written accents.
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accentuation,
accent mark,
punctuate,
emphasize,
emphasis,
idiom,
stress,
dialect,
set off,
bring out,
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