| NOUN | communication | accent mark, accent | a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
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| Meaning | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation. | |
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| Synonym | accent | |
| Category | language, linguistic communication | A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols |
| Narrower | acute accent, acute, ague | A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
| grave accent, grave | A mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation | |
| stress mark | A mark indicating the stress on a syllable | |
| Broader | diacritical mark, diacritic | A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
| Spanish | acento, tilde | |
| Catalan | accent | |
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