# accented

Pronunciation: US say "AK-sent-id" /ˈæk.sɛnt.ɪd/; UK say "AK-suhnt-id" /ˈak.sənt.ɪd/

## Adjective

1. Spoken with a distinctive regional or foreign pronunciation, or bearing a diacritical mark on a letter.
   - Simple: Spoken in a way that shows where a person comes from, or written with a mark above a letter.
   - _His lightly accented speech gave away that he had grown up abroad._
   - _The keyboard layout made it easy to type accented characters._

## Verb

Pronunciation: US say "AK-sent-id" /ˈæk.sɛnt.ɪd/; UK say "ak-SEN-tid" /ækˈsɛntɪd/

2. Simple past and past participle of accent. — simple past and past participle of accent
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of accent. Use this form when the action already happened.
   - _The architect accented the entrance with two tall stone columns._
   - _Each headline was accented in bold red type for emphasis._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/accented (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).