Accent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACCENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pronounce with prominence
• To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
• To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
• to stress, single out as important
• put stress on; utter with an accent
• place emphasis on
NOUN:
• a mark on a letter, typically a vowel, to indicate pitch, stress, or vowel quality
• an emphasis on a particular note or chord
• a feature which gives a distinctive visual emphasis to something
• a distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular country, area, or social class
• a distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch
• a special or particular emphasis
• play (a note or beat) with emphasis
• emphasize (a particular feature)
• style of pronunciation
• A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
• A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
• Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
• A word; a significant tone
• expressions in general; speech.
• Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
• A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
• 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\'\'.
• A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12\'27\'\', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
• A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6\' 10\'\' is six feet ten inches.
• distinctive manner of oral expression
• special importance or significance
• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

Words related to ACCENT

accented13 accenting14 accentless14 accents11 accentualities18 accentuality19

Words that contain ACCENT

accents11 accented13 accentor12 reaccent12 accenting14 accentors13 accentual13 reaccents13 accentless14 accentuate14 reaccented15 unaccented15 accentually18 accentuated16 accentuates15 reaccenting16 accentuality19 accentuating17 accentuation16 accentuations17 unaccentuated18 accentualities18 overaccentuate21 overaccentuated23 overaccentuates22 overaccentuatin22 overaccentuating24

How to use ACCENT in a sentence

• The accent of the voices outside told him that it was a rebel ambulance and not a Northern one he was in.
• The voice was astonishingly soft and pleasant, and the accent agreeably refined.
• Then if you are still in Doubt, pay attention to the Accent.
• Here is the spirit of it embodied in a word and paying its respects to you with its native accent.
• This man expressed himself with perfect ease, without any accent.
• When he rose, I saw that he was perfectly dressed, and when he spoke to a waiter, his voice seemed deep, and his accent fine.
• She wore bracelets on her wrists, and her accent was as flat as her ideas.
• He could not help feeling that, if he talked to her with any forcing of the personal accent, she would stop laughing and the clear eyes would be troubled.
• In spite of their strong Yorkshire accent, Robin overheard a good deal, and it sounded very fine.
• With a slight initial accent sing each two-measure section smoothly as one phrase.
• There arose avenging kinsfolk of Magnus, who had no Irish accent in their Norse, and were themselves eager enough to bear rule in their native country.
• The verb usually takes the accent on the last syllable.
• The important thing to start with is that we should know the general principle on which accent is based.
• It seemed to them that he spoke with something of a foreign accent.
• By the Tone or Accent, I do not mean the Pronunciation of each particular Word, but the Sound of the whole Sentence.
• Rollo Wrissell, and he said it with an accent more Kensingtonian than any accent that Edward Henry had ever heard.
• How nicely she spoke too! nice clear-cut words! She made him feel what slush his own accent was.
• You speak German without an accent, but your face betrays you.
• She believed that she would grow to like the Southern accent.
• Denry perceived from her accent that she was not English.
• Not to return too often to the same subject, Your Holiness will note the accent marking all these native words is placed where it should fall.
• This applies mostly to the position of the stress or, as some prefer to call it, the accent, but in many cases it is true also of the quantity of the vowels.
• In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries there were scholars who rightly or wrongly treated the Greek accent as a mark of stress.

Similar words containing ACC without suffix ent

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