"accentuation" meaning in English

See accentuation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌækˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/ [US], /ˌɪkˌsɛn.t͡ʃəˈweɪ.ʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-accentuation.wav [US] Forms: accentuations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Late Latin accentuatio. Compare French accentuation. Equivalent to accentuate + -ion. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la-lat|accentuatio}} Late Latin accentuatio, {{cog|fr|accentuation}} French accentuation, {{suffix|en|accentuate|ion}} accentuate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} accentuation (countable and uncountable, plural accentuations)
  1. A more distinct or prominent form. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-accentuation-en-noun-DBEXpDaO
  2. Act of accentuating; applications of accent. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (act of accentuating): accentuation [feminine] (French), τονισμός (tonismós) [masculine] (Greek), aksentuasi (Indonesian), accentuatio [feminine] (Latin), akcentuācija [feminine] (Latvian), akcentēšana [feminine] (Latvian), akcentuacja [feminine] (Polish), acentuação [feminine] (Portuguese), акцентуа́ция (akcentuácija) [feminine] (Russian), acentuación [feminine] (Spanish), vurgulama (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-accentuation-en-noun--~PFFpUN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ion, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Indonesian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 56 39 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ion: 29 43 27 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 59 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 59 35 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 61 34 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 13 62 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 12 55 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Indonesian translations: 15 64 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 11 68 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 15 64 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 14 60 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 17 61 22 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 14 60 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 11 68 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 9 65 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 13 61 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 13 61 26 Disambiguation of 'act of accentuating': 1 95 3
  3. (ecclesiastical, music) Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (pitch or modulation of the voice): acentuação [feminine] (Portuguese), acentuación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-accentuation-en-noun-VmMvsVyw Categories (other): Music Topics: ecclesiastical, entertainment, lifestyle, music, religion Disambiguation of 'pitch or modulation of the voice': 0 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: misaccentuation, overaccentuation, reaccentuation

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.