I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thick German/Yorkshire etc accent
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Olga speaks English with a thick Russian accent.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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That evening Charlie hardly opened his mouth as he listened to the different accents of the men babbling around him.
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I had a different accent and vocabulary.
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The strange thing was that he spoke to everybody with a different accent .
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Leavis, Lewis, and Gardner shared traditional values, even though Cambridge and Oxford spoke with different accents .
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There was a score of different accents and tongues around her as she stood there, but not the one she wanted.
foreign
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Anyone with a foreign accent , including refugee children, were labelled as potential saboteurs.
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His friends enjoyed his flights into foreign accents and mimicry.
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This creates a very strong impression of a foreign accent , and is something that should obviously be avoided.
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They're around 30, some victims thought they had foreign accents .
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It can apparently recognise an impressive variety of regional and foreign accents .
heavy
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In rural areas the heavy regional accents added to the problem.
local
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In Minnesota and states of the northern Midwest a Scandinavian lilt is apparent in the local accent .
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He was wearing a green suit and spoke with a local accent .
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Some nights we've company, local accents in the dusk.
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Birds even have local accents overlain on the basic language patterns with which they are born.
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He has short, dark, spiked hair and speaks with a local accent .
northern
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Worse, I Was a slow runner and had a Northern accent .
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You can usually spot Reeves on the programme by his larded-on northern accent .
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John, of course, had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman.
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A car-driving, home-owning, polytechnic lecturer with a fake northern accent , was a bleating guilty liberal, not a socialist.
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It was his voice and his northern accent .
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He supposed that the man with the Northern actorish accent had given her all the advice she needed.
regional
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National regional accents sound very attractive on radio.
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Sure, there were some differences due to regional slang and accents .
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Dialects are spoken with pronounced regional accents .
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Do not correct any regional accent he may have. 4 Give him time to look at the word.
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It can apparently recognise an impressive variety of regional and foreign accents .
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In rural areas the heavy regional accents added to the problem.
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And heaven forbid that you should be served by some one in a chain coffee house with a regional accent .
slight
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A slight but unmistakable accent suggested that his name was not Leblond.
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There had been some sort of slight accent too.
soft
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It was a country voice with a soft accent which was an intonation more than a dialect and was hard to place.
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The taxi nosed its way back into the traffic as she introduced herself with a soft Cockney accent and a shy manner.
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That was clear from the soft , seductive accent .
southern
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But I pointed out that Sergei's Southern accent had been perfect.
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There gas Sam, short for Samanthagray-green eyes and a Southern accent .
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The victim was forced to hand over his watch to the youths, who spoke with southern accents .
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The Picketts dance deftly, two-stepping through songs not made for a southern accent .
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They all have southern accents . 5.
strong
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Not merely that, I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that wasn't!
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Two young men, both slightly overweight, have lost their strong Liver pool accents during their years in the secure units.
thick
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Her immigrant father with his thick mustache and accent and three-piece suit would only bring her more ridicule.
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With his thick accent , Lygizos should get a stall in the Sharks locker room.
■ NOUN
cockney
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A new girl called Laura is in my class she has a real cockney accent and she's hilarious!
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It was Sid, the Commando with the Cockney accent who had worked in the Kent coalfields.
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This is characteristic of a Cockney accent .
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The taxi nosed its way back into the traffic as she introduced herself with a soft Cockney accent and a shy manner.
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Sharp featured, with a Cockney accent and a biting wit, Mr Bowles was a gifted teacher.
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The attacker was described as 30 years old with short dark hair, slight build and a Cockney accent .
■ VERB
hear
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I was glad to hear the accent , for it reminded me of my exciting days in Northern Ireland, recounted elsewhere.
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As soon as I heard de Niro's accent I laughed.
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She heard the various accents and identified them without thinking, Cockney, West Country, and a thick nasal Mancunian.
lose
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John, of course, had long since lost his northern accent and took delight in his appearance as the well-heeled businessman.
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Captain Robins was a Yorkshireman in his fifties who had long since lost his accent amidst the welter of a dozen dialects.
speak
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She speaks with a London accent , though her father knows the Royal Family.
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Margy comes from Newcastle and speaks with a Geordie accent .
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He was wearing a green suit and spoke with a local accent .
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Dialects are spoken with pronounced regional accents .
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The victim was forced to hand over his watch to the youths, who spoke with southern accents .
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She continued: They didn't speak with Oxford accents .
talk
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I am not talking here about accents .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mid Atlantic accent
strong accent
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Not merely that, I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that wasn't!
the stress/accent/beat falls on sth
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In the word "spoken," the stress falls on the first syllable.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alex spoke Portuguese with a Brazilian accent .
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Her companion had a broad Australian accent .
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His accent was so strong that I couldn't understand a word he was saying.
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I knew from his accent that he was from the South.
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Maria speaks Spanish with a Mexican accent .
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She spoke with a distinctly upper class accent .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyone with a foreign accent , including refugee children, were labelled as potential saboteurs.
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Are the accents strongly regional and therefore perhaps unfamiliar to your students?
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Her acquired accent sounded suddenly very strong.
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It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
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Margy comes from Newcastle and speaks with a Geordie accent .
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National regional accents sound very attractive on radio.
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The accent on non sequiturs and non-linear thinking echoes the Ono sensibility and much else in determinedly avant-garde circles.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
heavily
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All the foreign students sat together in the Student Union, at the same table, exchanging heavily accented platitudes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mid Atlantic accent
strong accent
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Not merely that, I was putting my strongest accent on the syllable that wasn't!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Skillful use of make-up can accent your cheekbones and hide small blemishes.
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The side tables were accented by fresh flower arrangements.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The opening chase sequence, accenting its violent end, is exhilaratingly choreographed.