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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.
