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 French word "mouill�" appears, apparently randomly, both with and without the acute accent.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Paroxytone, par-ok′si-tōn, adj. having the acute accent on the last syllable but one.—n. a word with an acute accent on the second last syllable.—v.t. to accent a word in this way.

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

Transcriber's note: Nyársnóttin—the y has an acute accent.

From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton