Usually means: Lesser emphasis than primary stress.
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  1. secondary stress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. secondary stress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. secondary stress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. secondary stress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. secondary stress: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. secondary stress: Dictionary.com
  7. Secondary stress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. secondary stress: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. secondary stress: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (secondary stress)

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

Similar:
primary stress, secondary accent, stress, stress accent, stress mark, tonic accent, reduced vowel, emphasis, accent, floating tone, more...

Opposite:
primary stress, accented syllable, main stress

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Similar:
primary stress, secondary accent, stress, stress accent, stress mark, tonic accent, reduced vowel, emphasis, accent, floating tone, more...

Opposite:
primary stress, accented syllable, main stress



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