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# accent

noun (an accent, accents); verb (accent, accented — rare)

«accent» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An accent is the way people from a place or country pronounce a language: a Scottish accent, an American accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m1)
2. An accent is extra force on one part of a word when you say it, called stress. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m2)
3. An accent is a small mark above or below a letter that changes its sound, as in café. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m3)
4. An accent is a small detail that stands out, like an accent colour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#m4)

### In the lessons

In everyday life everyone has an accent, and accents tell where people grew up; making fun of an accent is unkind. In English lessons, knowing where the accent (stress) falls helps pronunciation: PRE-sent (a gift) and pre-SENT (to show). In music an accent is a note played louder. Phrases: a strong accent, put the accent on, accent mark.

### Examples

- She speaks with an Irish accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x1)
- My cousin from Texas has a different accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x2)
- Café has an accent on the e. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x3)
- Everybody has an accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x4)
- The accent is on the first part of «table». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x5)
- He copied the teacher's accent and everyone laughed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x6)
- The room is white with red accents. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x7)
- Learning a new language, you might keep your own accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x8)
- The accent falls on the second syllable of Ivan, on the first of Popyalof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/#x9)

### Note

Countable. An accent is not the same as a dialect: an accent is only about sounds; a dialect also uses different words and grammar. English rarely uses accent marks, but words borrowed from French or Spanish keep them (café, piñata).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «accent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/accent/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«accent» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/accent.html) on Mova free.