1. distinctive manner of oral expression; - Example: "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent" - Example: "she had a very clear speech pattern" [syn: accent, speech pattern]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
speech pattern
n 1: distinctive manner of oral expression; "he couldn't
suppress his contemptuous accent"; "she had a very clear
speech pattern" [syn: accent, speech pattern]