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Multi-word Results
| acute accent |
a diacritical mark (´), placed over a vowel to indicate length or high pitch, or to indicate primary stress of a syllable. (Cf. grave accent.) |
| grave accent |
a diacritical mark (à), placed over a vowel to indicate length or low pitch, or to indicate secondary stress of a syllable. (Cf. acute accent.) |
| primary accent |
the strongest stress or emphasis given to one syllable in a spoken word or to one word in an utterance; primary stress. [2 definitions] |
| secondary accent |
a stress accent that is not as strong as a primary accent; secondary stress. [2 definitions] |
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