Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ACCENT

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Definitions of ACCENT

1. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
2. A word; a significant tone or sound.
3. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
4. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
5. (linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
6. (figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
7. (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
8. (linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
9. (usually, plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
10. (prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
11. (music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
12. (music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
13. (music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.thumb
14. (music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
15. (mathematics) A prime symbol.
16. (archaic) Utterance.
17. (transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
18. (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
19. (transitive) To mark with written accents.

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Examples of Using ACCENT in a Sentence

• Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced "Einbeck" as "ein Bock" ("a billy goat"), and thus the beer became known as "Bock".
• A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph.
• After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second "e".
• The sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said that the habitus consists of the hexis, a person's carriage (posture) and speech (accent), and the mental habits of perception, classification, appreciation, feeling, and action.
• Hexameter is a metrical line of verses consisting of six feet (a "foot" here is the pulse, or major accent, of words in an English line of poetry; in Greek as well as in Latin a "foot" is not an accent, but describes various combinations of syllables).
• He learned English as a child from a Dutch family in Nagasaki, and so always spoke English with a Dutch accent.
• The varieties of English that had the biggest influence on the development of New Zealand English were Australian English and Southern England English, with lesser influences from American English, Hiberno-English, Scottish English and the British prestige accent Received Pronunciation (RP).
• Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken British English, since as late as the early 20th century.
• It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish, although the degree of mutual intelligibility is dependent on the dialect and accent of the speaker.
• Known for his Mid-Atlantic accent, debonair demeanor, lighthearted approach to acting, and sense of comic timing, he was one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.
• Some versions identify the stone brought by Fergus with the Lia Fáil, in Scottish Gaelic (or Erse) originally rendered "Lia Fàil" and, after Twentieth Century alphabet revisions that saw the Grave accent replaced with the Acute accent, "Lia Fáil" (Scottish Gaelic for "stone of destiny", from "Lia", meaning "stone", and "fàil", meaning "fatal", and of the same etymology as English Fate).
• He is probably best remembered as the formal announcer on Beyond Our Ken (1958–1964), its successor Round the Horne (1965–1968) and the short-lived Stop Messing About (1969–1970), where his "BBC accent" was used to comic effect.
• A standard in most drum kits, the ride's function is to maintain a steady pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than provide the accent of a crash cymbal.
• Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films over a career that spanned eight decades and is considered a British film icon.
• Known for her versatility and adept accent work, she has been described as "the best actress of her generation".
• Bob is a self-proclaimed genius who is a graduate of Yale University and a champion of high culture, including the adoption of a transatlantic accent, similar to that of Grammer's portrayal of Dr.
• The French name pétanque (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent) comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pè tancat , meaning 'foot fixed' or 'foot planted' (on the ground).
• He began to study the accent of Danish and Slavic languages, and he was puzzled by the fact that the Gothic words fadar and broþar have different consonants after the root vowel.
• A 2008 newspaper survey found the Geordie accent to be perceived as the "most attractive in England" among the British public.
• The name "Albert", that of the deceased brother, became the Italian "Alberto" because the registrar misunderstood Silvio Uderzo's heavy Italian accent.

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