acute accent

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

the mark placed over a vowel to show how it should be pronounced, as over the e in fiance compareCIRCUMFLEX, GRAVE, TILDE, UMLAUT

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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acute accentEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus acute accentEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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acute accent