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    DIACRITICAL MARK

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciationplay

    Synonyms:

    diacritic; diacritical mark

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("diacritical mark" is a kind of...):

    mark (a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation))

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diacritical mark"):

    accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)

    breve (a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound)

    cedilla (a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s)

    circumflex (a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality)

    hacek; wedge (a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation)

    macron (a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound)

    tilde (a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization)

    umlaut (a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages)

    diaeresis; dieresis (a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel)

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