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PROPAROXYTONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does proparoxytone mean?
• PROPAROXYTONE (noun)
The noun PROPAROXYTONE has 1 sense:
1. word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
Familiarity information: PROPAROXYTONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("proparoxytone" is a kind of...):
word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)
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