Crossword-Solution: ACCENT 6 letters, 147 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Accent	n.	A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
Accent	n.	A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
Accent	n.	Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
Accent	n.	A word; a significant tone
Accent	n.	expressions in general; speech.
Accent	n.	Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
Accent	n.	A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
Accent	n.	A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
Accent	n.	The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
Accent	n.	The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage.
Accent	n.	A mark placed at the right hand of a letter, and a little above it, to distinguish magnitudes of a similar kind expressed by the same letter, but differing in value, as y', y''.
Accent	n.	A mark at the right hand of a number, indicating minutes of a degree, seconds, etc.; as, 12'27'', i. e., twelve minutes twenty seven seconds.
Accent	n.	A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.
Accent	v. t.	To express the accent of (either by the voice or by a mark); to utter or to mark with accent.
Accent	v. t.	To mark emphatically; to emphasize.

We have 147 clues for the answer “ACCENT”

Clue	Answers
"Les Misérables" feature	1 answer
A stress or emphasis on a particular part of something	1 answer
A tilde is one	1 answer
Actor's study, perhaps	1 answer
Apply blush to, perhaps	1 answer
Attaché feature?	1 answer
Brogue or twang	1 answer
Brogue or twang, e.g.	1 answer
Brogue, for one	1 answer
Burr or brogue	1 answer
Cause of misunderstanding?	1 answer
Circumflex is one.	1 answer
Circumflex, for example	1 answer
Decorative distinction	1 answer
Dialect coach's focus	1 answer
Distinctive mode of expression.	1 answer
Distinctive vocal pattern	1 answer
Down East or Southern	1 answer
Drawl, for one	1 answer
Entrée feature	1 answer
Evidence of one's upbringing	1 answer
Evidence that one is an alien	1 answer
Exposé feature?	1 answer
Feature of many New Yorkers' speech	1 answer
Distinctive way of pronouncing words	1 answer
Foreigner's ID?	1 answer
Foreigner's dead giveaway	1 answer
Foreigner's giveaway	1 answer
Foreigner's giveaway, perhaps	1 answer
French charm in the U. S.	1 answer
Good thing to pick up when studying abroad	1 answer
Grave mark?	1 answer
Grave marker, say	1 answer
Ictus, e.g.	1 answer
Idiosyncratic articulation	1 answer
Immigrant's giveaway	1 answer
In Boston, this makes a god out of a guard	1 answer
Irish brogue, for example	1 answer
It gives speech local color	1 answer
It might be grave	1 answer
JFK's was Bostonian	1 answer
Local speech pattern, to outsiders	1 answer
Many emigrants have one	1 answer
Mark on a letter	1 answer
Mark over a vowel, perhaps	1 answer
Metrical consideration for Wilbur	1 answer
Native Bostonian's giveaway	1 answer
One may be added to "rose"	1 answer
One of two in "résumé"	1 answer
One way to identify a foreigner	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

RNAECO

Hint 3 another clue

COVER THE EYES

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Sentences with ACCENT (5)

Every turn, look, word, and accent contained a mystery quite distinct from its obvious import, and not one had ever been pondered by him until now.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

What was it? The complaint of a human heart, sorrow-laden, perchance guilty, telling its secret, whether of guilt or sorrow, to the great heart of mankind; beseeching its sympathy or forgiveness,—at every moment,—in each accent,—and never in vain! It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

This story attempts to deal only with the simple and concrete beginnings which color and accent an artist’s work, and to give some account of how a Moonstone girl found her way out of a vague, easy-going world into a life of disciplined endeavor.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

She did not realise for at least another ten seconds whence came that voice, so drawly, so dear, but alas! with a strange accent of weakness and of suffering.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993

Although he speaks fluent Greek without any accent at all, he never attended a Greek school and couldn't write the memories.

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece Norman F. Joly 2008

Quotes with ACCENT (3)

In these downbeat times, we need as much hope and courage as we do vision and analysis; we must accent the best of each other even as we point out the vicious effects of our racial divide and pernicious consequences of our maldistribution of wealth and power. We simply cannot enter the twenty-first century at each other's throats, even as we acknowledge the weighty forces of racism, patriarchy, economic inequality, homophobia, and ecological abuse on our necks. We are at a cr…

Cornel West Race Matters

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." She essayed to smile again and expired.

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

We finally settled on Francis Ford Coppola's version of Dracula, which, unfortunately, Gabriel seemed to think was a comedy. I think it was the combination of Keanu Reeves's British accent and Gary Oldman's elderly Count Dracula hairstyle. They're just misleading.

Molly Harper Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 141 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).