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 )

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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

The acute accent placed over the "e" in his name by the French poet and by biographers, critics, and editors since was never used by the etcher.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

But Aristarchus marks the word, whether it means the fruit or the tree, with an acute accent indifferently; while Philoxenus would circumflex the word in either sense.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

In the original text, there was the unusual word "sćrak", spelled with a c with acute accent.

From In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir