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

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

Oxytone, oks′i-tōn, adj. having an acute sound: having the acute accent on the last syllable.—n. a word so accented.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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