grave accent

Noun

Meaning

a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

grave graves accent diacritical tomb diacritic umlaut cedilla dieresis circumflex severe stress backtick character

Hypernyms

accent accent mark

Related terms

acute accent

Examples

Diacritics Three kinds of diacritic were in common use: the acute accent ´, the grave accent `, and the circumflex accent ˆ. These were normally only marked on vowels (e.g. í, è, â); but see below regarding que. Source: Internet

Many earlier (pre-1985) computer displays and printers rendered the ASCII apostrophe as a typographic apostrophe, and rendered the ASCII grave accent ( ` ) U+0060 as a matching left single quotation mark. Source: Internet

In the examples below, breathy voice is marked with a grave accent. Source: Internet

The grave accent had various uses, none related to pronunciation or stress. Source: Internet

The grave accent is used over any vowel to indicate word-final stress, as in gioventù "youth". Source: Internet

The schwa vowel /ǝ/ is written ambiguously as e, but its accentuation will sometimes distinguish it: a long vowel mark can never appear on a schwa, while a grave accent can appear only on a schwa. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gravatar Gravatt grave grave affair grave as a judge grave breach