Usually means: Distinctive way of pronouncing language.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word accent:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. accent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accent, accent: Wordnik
  7. accent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accent: Wiktionary
  9. accent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Accent, accent: Dictionary.com
  13. accent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ac'cent, Accent (dialect), Accent (disambiguation), Accent (fallacy), Accent (linguistics), Accent (music), Accent (phonetics), Accent (phonology), Accent (poetry), Accent (programming language), Accent (sociolinguistics), Accent (speech), Accent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Accent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. accent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. accent: Rhymezone
  19. accent, accent (het), accent (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. accent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. accent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. accent: Free Dictionary
  23. accent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. accent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. accent: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. accent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Accent: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Accent: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  4. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Accent: Lexicon of Linguistics
  6. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  7. ACCENT: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Accent: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. accent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. ACCENT: Acronym Finder

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See accented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
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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