The use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance.
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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Roget 597:
poetry,
poetics,
poesy,
Muse,
Calliope,
tuneful Nine,
Parnassus,
Helicon†,
Pierides,
Pierian spring.
versification,
rhyming,
making verses;
prosody,
orthometry†.
poem;
epic,
epic poem;
epopee†,
epopoea,
ode,
epode†,
idyl,
lyric,
eclogue,
pastoral,
bucolic,
dithyramb,
anacreontic†,
sonnet,
roundelay,
rondeau [Fr.],
rondo,
madrigal,
canzonet†,
cento†,
monody [Slang],
elegy;
amoebaeum,
ghazal†,
palinode.
dramatic poetry,
lyric poetry;
opera;
posy,
anthology;
disjecta membra poetae song [Lat.],
ballad,
lay;
love song,
drinking song,
war song,
sea song;
lullaby;
music
etc.
415;
nursery rhymes.
[Bad poetry]
doggerel,
Hudibrastic verse†,
prose run mad;
macaronics†;
macaronic verse†,
leonine verse;
runes.
canto,
stanza,
distich,
verse,
line,
couplet,
triplet,
quatrain;
strophe,
antistrophe†.
verse,
rhyme,
assonance,
crambo†,
meter,
measure,
foot,
numbers,
strain,
rhythm;
accentuation
etc.
(voice)
580;
dactyl,
spondee,
trochee,
anapest
&c.;
hexameter,
pentameter;
Alexandrine;
anacrusis†,
antispast†,
blank verse,
ictus.
elegiacs
etc.
adj.;
elegiac verse,
elegaic meter,
elegaic poetry.
poet,
poet laureate;
laureate;
bard,
lyrist†,
scald,
skald†,
troubadour,
trouvere [Fr.];
minstrel;
minnesinger,
meistersinger [G.];
improvisatore†;
versifier,
sonneteer;
rhymer,
rhymist†,
rhymester;
ballad monger,
runer†;
poetaster;
genus irritabile vatum [Lat.].
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Dutch: beklemtoning, accentuering
Polish: akcentuacja, akcentacja
The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
synonyms: accenting, emphasizing.
Dutch: accentuatie, accentuering
Polish: podkreślenie, zaakcentowanie