accent marks

A form of accent mark — A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of accent mark
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