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English noun: accent | |||
| 1. | accent (communication) distinctive manner of oral expression | ||
| Samples | He couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent. She had a very clear speech pattern. | ||
| Synonyms | speech pattern | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | pronunciation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | drawl | ||
| 2. | accent (state) special importance or significance | ||
| Samples | The red light gave the central figure increased emphasis. The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents. | ||
| Synonyms | emphasis | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | grandness, importance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | focus, stress | ||
| 3. | accent (communication) the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people | ||
| Samples | The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English. He has a strong German accent. It has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy. | ||
| Synonyms | dialect, idiom | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | non-standard speech | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | eye dialect, patois | ||
| Domain usage members | bang, euphonious, forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, spang | ||
| 4. | accent (communication) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | ||
| Samples | He put the stress on the wrong syllable. | ||
| Synonyms | emphasis, stress | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | inflection, prosody | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accentuation, pitch accent, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, word stress | ||
| 5. | accent (communication) a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation | ||
| Synonyms | accent mark | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | diacritic, diacritical mark | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | acute, acute accent, ague, grave, grave accent, stress mark | ||
| Domain category | language, linguistic communication | ||
English verb: accent | |||
| 1. | accent (communication) to stress, single out as important | ||
| Samples | Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet. | ||
| Synonyms | accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | evince, express, show | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | background, bear down, bring out, downplay, drive home, emphasise, emphasize, play down, point up, press home, ram home, re-emphasise, re-emphasize, set off, topicalize, underline, underscore | ||
| 2. | accent (communication) put stress on; utter with an accent | ||
| Samples | In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word. | ||
| Synonyms | accentuate, stress | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out | ||
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