EMPHASIS


Meaning of EMPHASIS in English

(emphases)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Emphasis is special or extra importance that is given to an activity or to a part or aspect of something.

Too much ~ is placed on research...

Grant puts a special ~ on weather in his paintings.

= stress

N-VAR: oft N on n

2.

Emphasis is extra force that you put on a syllable, word, or phrase when you are speaking in order to make it seem more important.

‘I might have know it!’ Miss Burnett said with ~...

The ~ is on the first syllable of the last word.

N-VAR

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