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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ́ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, typography, writing
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the Modern Greek τόνος (tónos, “stress, accent”). Doublet of tone.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
