Accent

1. n. A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6′ 10” is six feet ten inches.
2. n. A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.
3. n. A mark or character used in writing, and serving to regulate the pronunciation; esp.: (a) a mark to indicate the nature and place of the spoken accent; (b) a mark to indicate the quality of sound of the vowel marked; as, the French accents.
4. n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; manner of speaking or pronouncing; peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice; tone; as, a foreign accent; a French or a German accent.
5. n. A word; a significant tone
6. n. expressions in general; speech.
7. n. Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
8. n. A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
9. n. A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
10. n. The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
11. 1n. 1 A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6′ 10” is six feet ten inches.
12. 1n. 1 A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.