accent noun [ C ] (PRONUNCIATION)
B1 the way in which people in a particular area, country, or social group pronounce words:
She's French but she speaks with an impeccable English accent.
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- At university he affected an upper-class accent.
- He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel.
- A woman with a very posh accent phoned for him earlier.
- Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street-credibility.
- She speaks English without the slightest trace of an accent.
accent noun [ C ] (MARK)
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- There's an acute accent on the e in blé, which is the French word for corn.
- Pay attention to the accents on the words, because they show you how to pronounce them.
- Françoise is spelled with an accent - a cedilla - on the 'c'.
- There is an accent called an umlaut in the German word 'Gebaüde', which means 'building'.
- They use quite a lot of accents in Turkish writing, don't they?
accent noun [ C ] (EMPHASIS)
› specialized language, music a special emphasis given to a particular syllable in a word, word in a sentence, or note in a set of musical notes:
the accent is on sth
› great importance is given to a particular thing or quality:
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› to emphasize something:
In any advertising campaign, you must accent the areas where your product is better than the competition.
