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secondary stress

secondary stress noun: the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.

Noun

secondary stress (countable and uncountable, plural secondary stresses)

  1. The weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.

secondary stress meaning in Tamil

secondary stress in Tamil

இரண்டாம்நிலை தகைவு

Synonyms of secondary stress

Forms of secondary stress

pluralsecondary stresses

Questions about secondary stress

What does secondary stress mean?
Secondary stress means the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.
What is secondary stress in Tamil?
Secondary stress in Tamil is இரண்டாம்நிலை தகைவு. See Secondary stress meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is secondary stress?
Secondary stress is a noun.
What is the plural of secondary stress?
The plural of secondary stress is secondary stresses.

Words near secondary stress in the dictionary

  1. secondary smoking
  2. secondary source
  3. secondary sources
  4. secondary storage
  5. secondary storages
  6. secondary stress
  7. secondary stresses
  8. secondary structure
  9. secondary structures
  10. secondary suite
  11. secondary suites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: secondary stress (page history and authors); secondary stress (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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