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ACCENT MARK
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Synonyms:
accent; accent mark
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("accent mark" is a kind of...):
diacritic; diacritical mark (a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation)
Domain category:
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accent mark"):
stress mark (a mark indicating the stress on a syllable)
acute; acute accent; ague (a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation)
grave; grave accent (a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation)
