Definitions for accent

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accent ac·cent

Spelling: [noun ak-sent; verb ak-sent, ak- Accent is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in accent (accent).

Definitions for accent

noun

1. prominence of a syllable in terms of differential loudness, or of pitch, or length, or of a combination of these.
2. degree of prominence of a syllable within a word and sometimes of a word within a phrase:
3. a mark indicating stress (as (·, ·), or (ˈ, ˌ), or (′, ″)), vowel quality (as French grave `, acute ´, circumflex ^, ), form (as French la “the” versus là “there”), or pitch.
4. any similar mark.
5. Prosody. regularly recurring stress. a mark indicating stress or some other distinction in pronunciation or value.
6. a musical tone or pattern of pitch inherent in a particular language either as a feature essential to the identification of a vowel or a syllable or to the general acoustic character of the language. Compare tone (def 7).
7. Often, accents. the unique speech patterns, inflections, choice of words, etc., that identify a particular individual: the distinctive style or tone characteristic of an author, composer, etc.:
8. a mode of pronunciation, as pitch or tone, emphasis pattern, or intonation, characteristic of or peculiar to the speech of a particular person, group, or locality: Compare tone (def 5).
9. such a mode of pronunciation recognized as being of foreign origin:
10. Music. a stress or emphasis given to certain notes. a mark noting this. stress or emphasis regularly recurring as a feature of rhythm.
11. Mathematics. a symbol used to distinguish similar quantities that differ in value, as in b ′, b ″, b ‴ (called b prime, b second or b double prime, b third or b triple prime, respectively). a symbol used to indicate a particular unit of measure, as feet (′) or inches (″), minutes (′) or seconds (″). a symbol used to indicate the order of a derivative of a function in calculus, as f′ (called f prime) is the first derivative of a function f.
12. words or tones expressive of some emotion.
13. accents, words; language; speech:
14. distinctive character or tone:
15. special attention, stress, or emphasis:
16. a detail that is emphasized by contrasting with its surroundings:
17. a distinctive but subordinate pattern, motif, color, flavor, or the like:

verb (used with object)

1. to pronounce with prominence (a syllable within a word or a word within a phrase): . Compare stress (def 12).
2. to mark with a written accent or accents.
3. to give emphasis or prominence to; accentuate.

Origin of accent

1520-30; Latin accentus speaking tone, equivalent to ac- ac- + -centus, combining form of cantus song (see canto); translation of Greek prosōi

Examples for accent

I thought there was something of an English accent in your speech now and then.

But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.

How would the first accent of his iron tongue have startled his resurrectionists!

Of course, in her Neverland they bleach your teeth so white they glow and Madonna coaches you on your convincing British accent.

I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent.

Like most educated Russians, he spoke English with barely an accent.

His accent, which was Kentuckian and therefore Southern, had helped him also.

He seems miffed that Liv Ullmann would go off and do a musical when he was thinking of putting her, accent and all, in his movie.

The accent upon the pronoun was very faint, but it was there for him to notice if he liked.

An older white woman, stopped Cook to ask, in strong New York accent, “Oh no, did they let him off?”