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accent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | emphasis |
| Type of | grandness, importance |
| Has types | stress, focus |
| Derivation | accentuate |
the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
| Type of | evince, show, express |
| Has types | re-emphasise, re-emphasize, press home, set off, bear down, point up, play down, topicalize, underline, underscore, downplay, drive home, emphasise, emphasize, bring out, background, ram home |
accent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | speech pattern |
| Type of | pronunciation |
| Has types | drawl |
| Derivation | accentuate |
he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent.
accent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | emphasis, stress |
| Type of | prosody, inflection |
| Has types | tonic accent, word accent, word stress, accentuation, sentence stress, pitch accent |
| Derivation | accentual, accentuate |
accent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dialect, idiom |
| Type of | non-standard speech |
| Has types | patois, eye dialect |
| Derivation | accentuate |
he has a strong German accent.
accent::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accent mark |
| Type of | diacritic, diacritical mark |
| Has types | acute, acute accent, ague, grave, grave accent, stress mark |
| Derivation | accentual, accentuate |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accentuate, stress |
| Type of | articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say, pronounce |
In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word.
Examples of accent
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Use tall shrubs to accent and frame interesting features of your house and yard.
From the thenewstribune.com
Hard working people are hard working people, regardless of skin color or accent.
From the economist.com
In Montclair, New Jersey, Murphy's neighbours said that they detected an accent.
From the guardian.co.uk
Huge ginger beard, unplaceable accent, talking vaguely about global communities.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Je ne comprend pas what it is about the French accent but it gets me every time.
From the nzherald.co.nz
I couldn't understand a word the traveller said, her Irish accent was so strong.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
Hmm. He tries to imitate Tommy Sheridan's accent which amuses the crowd greatly.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
A guy with a thick Eastern European accent cajoles me into a chair at his kiosk.
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She moves her arms with sharp little jabs and speaks in a thick New York accent.
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- Distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear speech pattern"
- Stress: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
- Emphasis: special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
- Stress: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- Dialect: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
- Stress: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
- Accent (u0410u043Au0446u0435u043Du0442) was a Belarusian heavy metal band from the city of Minsk. The band played an important role in the development of contemporary music in Belarus.
- In linguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation of a language. An accent may be associated with the region in which its speakers reside (a geographical or regional accent), the socio-economic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class, their first language (when ...
- In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. ...
