accent

意味: なまり/強調

例文: Momo speaks fluent French with a meow accent.
    モモは鳴き声なまりのフランス語を話す。

定義: 口頭表現の特有のマナー

コロケーション:

accentは70,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

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Definitions(定義)

Noun: distinctive manner of oral expression
Noun: special importance or significance
Noun: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Noun: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
Noun: a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Verb: to stress, single out as important
Verb: put stress on; utter with an accent

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

Noun: he couldn’t suppress his contemptuous accent
Noun: she had a very clear speech pattern
Noun: the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
Noun: the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents
Noun: the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
Noun: he has a strong German accent
Noun: it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
Noun: he put the stress on the wrong syllable
Verb: Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet
Verb: In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): accent, accent mark, accentuate, dialect, emphasis, emphasise, emphasize, idiom, punctuate, speech pattern, stress

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): diacritical mark, express, importance, non-standard speech, pronounce, pronunciation, prosody

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accent, articulation, aspirate, baby talk, beam, breve, burst out, caesura, cedilla, circumflex, click, devoice, dialect, drawl, emphasis, enjambment, explode, exude, flap, give, give voice, hacek, homophony, imply, intonation, lilt, lisp, localism, macron, menace, mispronounce, mispronunciation, nasalize, palatalize, primacy, raise, regionalism, retroflex, rhythm, roll, round, sibilate, sibilation, slang, smile, sneer, stress, subvocalize, suggest, syllabize, telegraphese, tilde, trill, twang, umlaut, vent, vernacular, vocalize, voice

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): accentuation, acute accent, background, bear down, bring out, drawl, drive home, eye dialect, grave accent, patois, point up, re-emphasise, sentence stress, stress, stress mark, tonic accent, topicalize, underscore, word stress

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: accent, accentual, accentuate, accentuation, dialectal, emphasis, emphasize, emphasizing, emphatic, stress

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories:

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