Distinctive manner of oral expression:
— He couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent.

synonym: speech pattern.

Roget 402: sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness etc. adj.; audibility; resonance etc. 408; voice etc. 580; aspirate; ideophone^†; rough breathing.    [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography^†; diacoustics^†, diaphonics^†; phonetism^†.    ... show more

Dutch: tongval
Polish: akcent

Special importance or significance:
— The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents.

synonym: emphasis.

Dutch: klemtoon, emfase, accent, beklemtoning, nadruk
Polish: emfaza

The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people:
— He has a strong German accent.

synonyms: dialect, idiom.

Roget 563: neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym^†; barbarism.    archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.    corruption, missaying^†, malapropism, antiphrasis^†.    pun, paranomasia^†, play upon words; word play etc. (wit) 842; double-entendre [Fr.] etc. (ambiguity) 520; palindrome, paragram^†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.    dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism^†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir.    dog Latin, macaronics^†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English^†, chi-chi.    figure of speech etc. (metaphor) 521; byword.    colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.    substandard language, vernacular.    vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.    jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.    Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang.    pseudology^†.    pseudonym etc. (misnomer) 565; Mr.    So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em^†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy^†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.].    neologist^†, coiner of words.    ... show more

Dutch: mondaard, accent, dialect, patois, streektaal

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch).

synonyms: emphasis, stress.

Roget 580: voice; vocality^†; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice etc. (loud) 404; musical voice etc. 413; intonation; tone of voice etc. (sound) 402.    vocalization; cry etc. 411; strain, utterance, prolation^†; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis^†; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery.    accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.    [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.    orthoepy^†; cacoepy^†; euphony etc. (melody) 413.    gastriloquism^†, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism^†, polyphonist^†.    [Science of voice] phonology etc. (sound) 402.    ... show more

Dutch: benadrukking, accent, beklemtoning, emfaze, klemtoon, nadruk
Polish: akcent

A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation.

synonym: accent mark.

Dutch: tongval, uitspraak, klemtoon, accent, accentteken
Polish: akcent

To stress, single out as important.

synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress.

Dutch: accentueren, profileren

Put stress on; utter with an accent:
— In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word.

synonyms: accentuate, stress.

Dutch: beklemtonen, accentueren, benadrukken