tilde — meaning in English

English meaning

• accent noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
• tilde noun A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.

Senses

tilde is used for these senses in English:

• accent (orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
• acute accent (orthography) : A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
• squiggle A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.
• tilde A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
• tilde The character encoded as decimal 126 in the 1967 ASCII character set, and later in the 1992 Unicode character set.

accent — full definition

1. noun A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, typical of a region, country, or social group.
2. noun A mark placed over a letter to show pronunciation or stress.
3. noun A detail that stands out and adds emphasis or contrast, especially in design.
4. verb To emphasize or draw attention to something.

tilde — full definition

1. noun A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
2. noun In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
3. noun In Portuguese, ⟨ã⟩ and ⟨õ⟩ are nasalized vowels, for example in ⟨canção⟩.
4. noun Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).

Related Spanish words