accent mark
Noun
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A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation (synset 106835082)
domain category: language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbolshypernym: diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciationhyponym:
- stress mark - a mark indicating the stress on a syllable
- acute, acute accent, ague - a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- grave, grave accent - a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
synonym: accent
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