Oxytone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Relating to or being a Greek word that has an acute accent on its last syllable.
  • adj. Relating to or being a word that has a heavy stress accent on its last syllable.
  • n. A word having the stress or the acute accent on the last syllable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Pertaining to a word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
  • n. A word with the stress or an acute accent on the last syllable.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
  • n. An acute sound.
  • n. A word having the acute accent on the last syllable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, especially Greek grammar: Having or characterized by the acute accent on the last syllable.
  • Causing a word to take the acute accent on the final syllable: as, an oxytone suffix.
  • n. A word which has the acute accent on the last syllable.
  • In grammar, to pronounce or write with the acute accent on the final syllable: as, to oxytone a word.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
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