| NOUN | communication | accent, speech pattern | distinctive manner of oral expression |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | accent, emphasis | special importance or significance / significance | |
| communication | accent, dialect, idiom | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | |
| communication | accent, stress, emphasis | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | |
| communication | accent, accent mark | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | |
| VERB | communication | accent, stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accentuate | to stress, single out as important |
| communication | accent, stress, accentuate | put stress on |
| Sounds | ae'kseh.nt; ahkseh'nt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | admonishment ... vent: 69 rhymes with ehnt... | |
| Meaning | distinctive manner of oral expression. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent" | |
| Synonym | speech pattern | |
| Narrower | drawl | A slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels |
| Broader | pronunciation | The manner in which someone utters a word |
| Spanish | acento, deje, dejo, tono | |
| Catalan | accent, deix | |
| Verbs | accentuate | put stress on |
| Meaning | Special importance or significance / significance. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents" | |
| Synonym | emphasis | |
| Narrower | stress, focus | Special emphasis attached to something |
| Broader | importance, grandness | A prominent status |
| Spanish | acento, énfasis | |
| Catalan | accent, èmfasi | |
| Verbs | accent, accentuate | to stress, single out as important |
| Meaning | The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "he has a strong German accent" | |
| Synonyms | dialect, idiom | |
| Narrower | eye dialect | The use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker |
| patois | A regional dialect of a language (especially French) | |
| Broader | non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual / usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
| Usage | euphonious | (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound |
| forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard | At or to or toward the front | |
| spang, bang | leap, jerk, bang | |
| Spanish | acento, dialecto | |
| Catalan | accent, dialecte, parlar | |
| Verbs | accentuate | put stress on |
| Meaning | The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch). | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | stress, emphasis | |
| Narrower | accentuation | The use or application of an accent |
| sentence stress | The distribution of stresses within a sentence | |
| tonic accent, pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness | |
| word stress, word accent | The distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word | |
| Broader | prosody, inflection | The patterns of stress and intonation in a language |
| Spanish | acento, acentuación, énfasis, tilde | |
| Catalan | accent, accentuació, èmfasi | |
| Adjectives | accentual | (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity |
| accentual | of or pertaining to accent or stress | |
| Verbs | accent, accentuate | put stress on |
| Meaning | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | accent mark | |
| Category | language, linguistic communication | A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols |
| Narrower | acute accent, acute, ague | A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| grave accent, grave | A mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | |
| stress mark | A mark indicating the stress on a syllable | |
| Broader | diacritical mark, diacritic | A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
| Spanish | acento, tilde | |
| Catalan | accent | |
| Adjectives | accentual | of or pertaining to accent or stress |
| Verbs | accentuate | put stress on |
| Meaning | put stress on; utter with an accent. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" | |
| Synonyms | stress, accentuate | |
| Broader | pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say | speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way |
| Spanish | acentuar, recalcar, remarcar | |
| Catalan | accentuar, recalcar, remarcar | |
| Nouns | accent | the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) |
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