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accent

/ˈak.sənt/

An illustration for accent

noun

a way of speaking that shows your dialect or class

  • “You can tell from his accent that he's not local.”Tatoeba
  • “He's from abroad, as you can tell from his accent.”Tatoeba

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)

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