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Definition accent

Etymology 1

From Middle English accent, from Middle French accent, from Old French acent, from Latin accentus, past participle of accin? (“sing to, sing along”). The word accent had been borrowed into Old English already, but was lost and reborrowed in Middle English.

Noun

accent (countable and uncountable, plural accents)

1. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
2. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
3. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
4. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
5. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
6. (linguistics, sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
7. A word; a significant tone or sound.
8. (usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
9. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
10. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
11. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
12. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
13. (music) The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
14. (music) A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
15. (mathematics) A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
16. (geometry) A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc., as in 12' 27'', meaning twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
17. (engineering) A mark used to denote feet and inches, as in 6' 10'', meaning six feet ten inches.
18. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
19. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
20. A distinctive feature or quality.
21. (archaic) Utterance.

Etymology 2

From Middle French accenter, from Old French accenter, from Latin accent?, from accentus.

Verb

accent (third-person singular simple present accents, present participle accenting, simple past and past participle accented)

1. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
2. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
3. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

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