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tonic accent

tonic accent noun: the syllable in a word which receives the most stress in an intonation unit.

Noun

tonic accent (plural tonic accents)

  1. The syllable in a word which receives the most stress in an intonation unit.

tonic accent meaning in Kannada

tonic accent in Kannada

ಸ್ವರಭಾರ, ಒತ್ತು

Forms of tonic accent

pluraltonic accents

Questions about tonic accent

What does tonic accent mean?
Tonic accent means the syllable in a word which receives the most stress in an intonation unit.
What is tonic accent in Kannada?
Tonic accent in Kannada is ಸ್ವರಭಾರ, ಒತ್ತು. See Tonic accent meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is tonic accent?
Tonic accent is a noun.
What is the plural of tonic accent?
The plural of tonic accent is tonic accents.

Words near tonic accent in the dictionary

  1. Tongzhou
  2. Toni
  3. Tonia
  4. Tonian
  5. tonic
  6. tonic accent
  7. tonic accents
  8. tonic and gin
  9. tonic and gins
  10. tonic immobility
  11. tonic tensor tympani syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tonic accent (page history and authors); tonic accent (Kannada 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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