Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "accent" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

accent acute accent diamond accent mark accent tag accent wall accent-wise accentism accentless accentologist accentology accentor acute accent blaccent circumflex accent deaccent diamond accent fagcent foreign accent syndrome grave accent gravo-acute accent misaccent nonaccent overaccent primary accent reaccent secondary accent tonic accent unaccent

Context

engineering geometry language linguistics mathematics music orthography poetry prosody sign languages sociolinguistics

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

articulate diacritic diacritical mark enounce enunciate evince express grandness importance inflection non-standard speech pronounce pronunciation prosody say show sound out

Type Of (IsA)

diacritical mark programming language pronunciation

Related Terms

circumflex diacritic

Related Terms

articulation artistic character circumflex composition contrast degree dialect distinguish emphasis emphasize expressive feet gemstone inch jewellery letter magnitude mark measure minute modulation period phonetic phonological phrase piece producing pronouncing recur second section shading sign language sound speech spoken stress syllable tone utterance verse word

Synonym Network

dialect emphasis stress

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