GRAVE ACCENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grave accent mean? 

• GRAVE ACCENT (noun)
  The noun GRAVE ACCENT has 1 sense:

1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

  Familiarity information: GRAVE ACCENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAVE ACCENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

grave; grave accent

Hypernyms ("grave accent" is a kind of...):

accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)