accent in Irish

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.

(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.

(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.