"grave accent" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: grave accents [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} grave accent (plural grave accents)
  1. (countable) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels. Wikipedia link: grave accent Tags: countable Categories (topical): Diacritical marks, Orthography Derived forms: double grave accent Related terms: acute accent, backtick, backquote Translations (diacritic mark (ˋ)): βαρεῖα (bareîa) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), نَبْرَة خَفِيضَة (nabra ḵafīḍa) [feminine] (Arabic), accent greu (Catalan), 重音符 (zhòngyīnfú) (Chinese Mandarin), gravis [masculine] (Czech), obrácená čárka [feminine] (Czech), accent grave [neuter] (Dutch), maldekstra korno (Esperanto), graavis (Estonian), gravis (Finnish), gravisaksentti (Finnish), graavi (Finnish), accent grave [masculine] (French), Gravis [masculine] (German), βαρεία (vareía) (Greek), tompa ékezet (Hungarian), öfugur broddur [masculine] (Icelandic), bakbroddur [masculine] (Icelandic), graif [feminine] (Irish), accento grave [masculine] (Italian), グレイヴ・アクセント (gureivu-akusento) (Japanese), 억음 부호 (eogeum buho) (Korean), accentus gravis [masculine] (Latin), на́дреден зна́к (nádreden znák) [masculine] (Macedonian), accent grave [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gravis [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), gravistegn [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), gravis [masculine] (Polish), acento grave [masculine] (Portuguese), accent grav [neuter] (Romanian), гра́вис (grávis) [masculine] (Russian), тупо́е ударе́ние (tupóje udarénije) [neuter] (Russian), краткоузлазни нагласак (note: for Serbo-Croatian accents) [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kratkouzlazni naglasak (note: for Serbo-Croatian accents) [Latin, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), acento grave [masculine] (Spanish), grave (Spanish), kruktumarki (Sranan Tongo), grav accent [common-gender] (Swedish), paiwa (Tagalog), peslik vurgusu (Turkish), гра́віс (hrávis) [masculine] (Ukrainian), тупи́й на́голос (tupýj náholos) [masculine] (Ukrainian), dấu huyền (Vietnamese), acen ddisgynedig [feminine] (Welsh), maaska tijji (Wolof)

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          "word": "тупи́й на́голос"
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          "word": "dấu huyền"
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      "roman": "eogeum buho",
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
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      "roman": "nádreden znák",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "grávis",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра́вис"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tupóje udarénije",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "тупо́е ударе́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "note": "for Serbo-Croatian accents",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "краткоузлазни нагласак"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "note": "for Serbo-Croatian accents",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kratkouzlazni naglasak"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "acento grave"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "grave"
    },
    {
      "code": "srn",
      "lang": "Sranan Tongo",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "kruktumarki"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "grav accent"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "paiwa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "peslik vurgusu"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hrávis",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гра́віс"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tupýj náholos",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "тупи́й на́голос"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "dấu huyền"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acen ddisgynedig"
    },
    {
      "code": "wo",
      "lang": "Wolof",
      "sense": "diacritic mark (ˋ)",
      "word": "maaska tijji"
    }
  ],
  "word": "grave accent"
}

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