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1. Distinctive manner of oral expression
   "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"
   - speech pattern
    
2. Special importance or significance
   "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
   - emphasis
    
3. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
   "he has a strong German accent"
   - dialect, idiom
    
4. The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
   - stress, emphasis
    
5. A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
   - accent mark

1. To stress, single out as important
   - stress, emphasize, emphasise [Brit], punctuate, accentuate
    
2. Put stress on; utter with an accent
   "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
   - stress, accentuate

Derived forms: accented, accents, accenting

See also: accentual

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

Encyclopedia: Accent