accent
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈæksɛnt/
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acento
- She spoke with a charming French accent that captivated everyone in the room.
- accent on a syllable
- word accent
- put the accent
So now, and it was a pretty strong accent, the you're dead phrase can have two meanings.
- So now, and it was a pretty strong accent, the you're dead phrase can have two meanings.
- Rhythm is a kind of harmony, a coming together harmoniously, sympathetically, interpenetrating each other of meter and accent.
- OK, you hit a little accent on that coitus, coitus coitus baby.
Examples
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With accent on the "fun".
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I myself was a little nervous having never really done much accent work.
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I think, though, we have to work on the accent.
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Her Southern accent was very pronounced, and as usual, its tone excited and scared me.
Fiction book (1995) -
Did you notice that for all of these words, the accent was on the first syllable?
Academic text (2000) -
Her voice had an odd intensity - an odd accent - that Jeff had never quite heard before.
Fiction book (1999) -
Nix could not place the man's accent, but he trusted him on instinct.
Fiction book (1993) -
"You know, Joe," John said gently, "I believe the name is pronounced Ca-Va-fee, accent on the second syllable."
Academic text (2007) -
They look, they used to have real, real thick accents, but they've lived in America now for a long, long time and they've lost those accents.
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In music, you should place an accent on the first beat of each measure.
Synonyms
14
3.7
Stress that makes a syllable or musical note stronger
1
3.2
The extra loudness or higher pitch on one syllable of a word
Emphasis on one syllable when you say a word with more than one syllable
The pattern of strong and weak syllables in a word with more than one syllable
Compounds
- Specialized
A mark of two acute accents placed above a vowel to show a long rounded sound in Hungarian
A mark placed above or below a letter to show which syllable is strong and how to say it
A way of speaking that puts extra stress on certain words or tones to make a point
- Specialized
The pattern of strong and weak syllables in a word with more than one syllable
How Stressed
13
3.5
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Accent comes from Latin accentus (from ad- 'to' + cantare 'to sing'), originally meaning a note or stress in speech or song. So, an accent is the stronger 'beat' or stress on a syllable or musical note.