acute accent

British  

noun

1. the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été ) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé )

---

Example Sentences

When they call a charge, there’s no acute accent over the “e.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2016

Exelrod has eyebrows like an owl with the ends sticking up: an acute accent on the left and a grave accent on the right.

From The Verge • Mar. 26, 2015

For typographical reasons the diæresis has been substituted for the double acute accent; the latter gives the same sound to the vowel over which it is placed as the former, only lengthened.

From The Baron's Sons by J?kai, M?r

The grave accent is here used in the word Mogòr, simply as following the usage of the Extracto, which throughout prints the grave instead of the acute accent.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de

Syllable stress is represented by an acute accent either on the main vówel or after the syl´lable; inconsistencies are unchanged.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various