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accent
verbs
have an accent
• The man had a Spanish accent.
speak with an accent
• She spoke with an accent that I couldn’t understand.
pick up an accent
• During his stay in England, he had picked up an English accent.
lose your accent
(= no longer speak with an accent )
• After five years in Europe, Ricky had lost his American accent.
put on an accent
(= deliberately speak with a different accent from your usual one )
• When mum’s on the phone, she puts on a funny accent.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + accent
a strong/broad/thick/pronounced accent
(= very noticeable )
• She spoke with a strong Scottish accent. • a broad Australian accent
a slight/faint accent
• He has a very slight accent.
a French/American etc accent
• I noticed that he had a Spanish accent.
a New York/London etc accent
• The woman had a Chicago accent.
a foreign accent
• I got a call from a man with a foreign accent.
a southern/northern accent
• He spoke with a lovely soft southern accent.
a regional accent
(= from a particular area of a country )
• If you have a regional accent, don’t try to hide it.
an upper-class/middle-class/working-class accent
• Sebastian spoke with an upper-class accent.
a posh/plummy accent
British English informal (= an upper-class accent )
• a tall man with a posh accent
nouns
a hint/trace of an accent
• I could detect the hint of a German accent in her voice.
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noun ADJ. broad, marked, pronounced, strong, thick She had a pronounced Scottish accent. | slight | country, foreign, local, regional | plummy, posh, public school | cockney | American, middle-class, northern, etc. QUANT. hint, trace Her French was excellent, without a trace of an accent. VERB + ACCENT have, speak in/with | acquire | affect, assume, imitate, put on She put on a posh accent when she answered the phone. | cultivate | lose He lost his northern accent after moving south. PREP. in an ~ She spoke in a broad Midlands accent. | with/without an ~ a tall man with an American accent
Oxford Collocations Dictionary