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accent
noun
1 accent
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†.
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Dutch: tongval
Polish: akcent
2 accent
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
3 accent
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.
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Dutch: mondaard, accent, dialect, patois, streektaal
4 accent
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.
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Dutch: benadrukking, accent, beklemtoning, emfaze, klemtoon, nadruk
Polish: akcent
5 accent
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
verb
1 accent
2 accent
Put stress on; utter with an accent:
— In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word.
synonyms: accentuate, stress.
Dutch: beklemtonen, accentueren, benadrukken
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