accent

noun

1. An effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables
2. A way of speaking typical of a particular group of people and especially of the natives or residents of a region

   "spoke with a Russian accent"

3. An individual's distinctive or characteristic inflection, tone, or choice of words
4. Rhythmically significant stress on the syllables of a verse usually at regular intervals
5. A mark (such as ´, `, ˆ) used in writing or printing to indicate a specific sound value, stress, or pitch, to distinguish words otherwise identically spelled, or to indicate that an ordinarily mute vowel should be pronounced
6. An accented letter
7. Greater stress given to one musical tone than to its neighbors
8. Accent mark
9. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition
10. An emphasized detail or area
11. A substance or object used for emphasis

    "a plant used as a decorative accent"

12. A double prime
13. Prime
14. Special concern or attention emphasis

    "an accent on youth"

15. Utterance

verb

1. To give special attention or prominence to (something)

   "TV shows that accent youth"

2. To pronounce (part of a word) with greater stress or force stress

   "Accent the second syllable of the word "before.""

3. To mark with a written or printed accent
4. to give special attention or prominence to (something) : to make (something) more emphatic, noticeable, or distinct
5. to pronounce (part of a word) with greater stress or force : stress
6. to mark with a written or printed accent

noun

1. Accent
2. Accent
3. A symbol used to indicate musical stress
4. A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate in which octave the note occurs

noun

1. Relative phonetic prominence (as from greater stress or higher pitch) of a spoken syllable or word
2. Accent depending on pitch rather than stress

noun

1. The manner in which stresses are distributed on the syllables of words assembled into sentences

noun

1. The manner in which stresses are distributed on the syllables of a word