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| NOUN | 1 | accent, speech pattern | Distinctive manner of oral expression |
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| 2 | accent, emphasis | Special importance or significance | |
| 3 | accent, dialect, idiom | The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | |
| 4 | accent, stress, emphasis | The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | |
| 5 | accent, accent mark | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | |
| VERB | 1 | accent, stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accentuate | To stress, single out as important |
| 2 | accent, stress, accentuate | Put stress on |
| Sounds | ae'kseh.nt; ahkseh'nt |
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| Rhymes | admonishment, advent / Advent, announcement, and 66 more rhymes in ehnt... |
| Meaning | Distinctive manner of oral expression. |
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| Examples | "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent" |
| Synonyms | speech pattern |
| Broader | pronunciation |
| Narrower | drawl |
| Verbs | accentuate |
| Meaning | Special importance or significance. |
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| Examples | "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" |
| Synonyms | emphasis |
| Broader | importance, grandness |
| Narrower | stress, focus |
| Verbs | accent, accentuate |
| Meaning | The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people. |
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| Examples | "he has a strong German accent" |
| Synonyms | dialect, idiom |
| Usage of | euphonious; forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard; spang, bang |
| Broader | non-standard speech |
| Narrower | eye dialect; patois |
| Verbs | accentuate |
| Meaning | The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch). |
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| Synonyms | stress, emphasis |
| Broader | prosody, inflection |
| Narrower | accentuation; tonic accent, pitch accent; word stress, word accent; sentence stress |
| Adjectives | accentual; accentual |
| Verbs | accent, accentuate |
| Meaning | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. |
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| Synonyms | accent mark |
| Category | language, linguistic communication |
| Broader | diacritical mark, diacritic |
| Narrower | stress mark; acute accent, acute, ague; grave accent, grave |
| Adjectives | accentual |
| Verbs | accentuate |
| Meaning | To stress, single out as important. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
| Synonyms | stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accentuate |
| Broader | express, show, evince |
| Narrower | background, play down, downplay; bring out, set off; re-emphasise, re-emphasize; bear down; topicalize; point up; drive home, ram home, press home; underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise |
| Nouns | accent |
| Meaning | Put stress on. Utter with an accent. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Examples | "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" |
| Synonyms | stress, accentuate |
| Broader | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say |
| Nouns | accent |
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