Definitions for accent mark
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
ac′cent mark`(n.)
a mark used to indicate an accent, stress, etc., as for pronunciation or in musical notation.
Category: Phonetics
Origin of accent mark:
1885–90
Princeton's WordNet
accent, accent mark(noun)
a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
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