Noun
1. speech pattern
2. pronunciation, emphasis
3. importance, grandness, dialect
4. idiom, non-standard speech, stress
5. emphasis, prosody, inflection, accent mark
Verb
1. diacritical mark, diacritic, stress
2. emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accentuate, express, show, evince, stress
3. accentuate, pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
| Foreign Language Equivalents of 'accent' | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language | Equivalent | Language | Equivalent | |||
| French | accent | Spanish | ||||