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accent circumflex

accent circumflex noun: a circumflex accent.

Noun

accent circumflex (plural accents circumflex)

  1. (rare) A circumflex accent.
    • I felt, and am still convinced, that this approach is both more useful and more defensible than the approach that sees punctuation as a vacuous enterprise which must nevertheless be taught, learned and displayed, by rôte — with or without the accent circumflex.2004 [2003], Gunther Kress, Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies), London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124

Forms of accent circumflex

pluralaccents circumflex

Questions about accent circumflex

What does accent circumflex mean?
Accent circumflex means a circumflex accent.
What part of speech is accent circumflex?
Accent circumflex is a noun.
What is the plural of accent circumflex?
The plural of accent circumflex is accents circumflex.

Words near accent circumflex in the dictionary

  1. accensions
  2. accensor
  3. accensors
  4. accent
  5. accent acute
  6. accent circumflex
  7. accent diamond
  8. accent diamonds
  9. accent grave
  10. accent mark
  11. accent marks

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