accent
Từ điển Collocation
accent noun
ADJ. broad, marked, pronounced, strong, thick She had a pronounced Scottish accent. | slight | country, foreign, local, regional | plummy, posh, public school | cockney | American, middle-class, northern, etc.
QUANT. hint, trace Her French was excellent, without a trace of an accent.
VERB + ACCENT have, speak in/with | acquire | affect, assume, imitate, put on She put on a posh accent when she answered the phone. | cultivate | lose He lost his northern accent after moving south.
PREP. in an ~ She spoke in a broad Midlands accent. | with/without an ~ a tall man with an American accent
Từ điển WordNet
n.
- distinctive manner of oral expression; speech pattern
he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent
she had a very clear speech pattern
- special importance or significance; emphasis
the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents
- the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; dialect, idiom
the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
he has a strong German accent
it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
- the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); stress, emphasis
he put the stress on the wrong syllable
- a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation; accent mark
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
accents|accented|accenting
syn.: emphasis inflection pronunciation tone
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