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

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

And the penultima of this word has the acute accent, like that in the word αἰτία, as Philemon tells us; like these words, παιδία, ταινία, οἰκία.

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

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

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