ACCENT MARK

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does accent mark mean? 

• ACCENT MARK (noun)
  The noun ACCENT MARK has 1 sense:

1. a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

  Familiarity information: ACCENT MARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCENT MARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

accent; accent mark

Hypernyms ("accent mark" is a kind of...):

diacritic; diacritical mark (a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation)

Domain category:

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "accent mark"):

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)