Usually means: Main emphasis in word pronunciation.
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  1. primary stress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. primary stress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. primary stress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. primary stress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. primary stress: Dictionary.com
  6. Primary stress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  8. primary stress: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  (phonetics) The stronger of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word.

Similar:
secondary stress, stress, tonic accent, stress accent, emphasis, secondary accent, accent, stress mark, full vowel, emphatic, more...

Opposite:
secondary stress, unstressed, weak stress

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Similar:
secondary stress, stress, tonic accent, stress accent, emphasis, secondary accent, accent, stress mark, full vowel, emphatic, more...

Opposite:
secondary stress, unstressed, weak stress



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