accent

Meanings

• distinctive manner of oral expression
  • "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"
• special importance or significance
  • "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
  • "he has a strong German accent"
• 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
• to stress, single out as important
• put stress on; utter with an accent
  • "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"

Synonyms

accent mark, accentuate, dialect, emphasis, emphasise, emphasize, idiom, punctuate, speech pattern, stress