 accentuation |
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| 1. | [ noun ] the act of giving special importance or significance to something | |
| Synonyms: | accenting emphasizing | |
| Related terms: | action stress | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (rhetoric) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | |
| Related terms: | stress stress | |
| 3. | [ noun ] (rhetoric) the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch) | |
| Synonyms: | stress accent emphasis | |
| Examples: | "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
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| Related terms: | prosody tonic_accent word_stress sentence_stress stress | |
| Similar spelling: |
accentuate accentual accenting acanthion acanthotic |
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