acute accent
noun/əˌkjuːt ˈæksent/
/əˌkjuːt ˈæksent/
- the mark placed over a vowel to show how it should be pronounced, as over the e in fiancé compare circumflex, grave2, tilde, umlautTopics Languagec2
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