present participle of accent

(transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent. / (transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent. / (transitive) To mark with written accents.

(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.

plural of accent

simple past tense and past participle of accent

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accent

Discrimination on the grounds of a person's accent.

plural of acute accent

plural of circumflex accent

(phonology) Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.