apostrophe

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/əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/ English

Definitions

noun

The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

noun

A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Related words

Synonyms

caron apostrophy apostrophization apostrophation curly apostrophe typographic apostrophe typewriter apostrophe vertical apostrophe printer's apostrophe typographical apostrophe straight apostrophe acute accent omission accent high comma circumflex

Associated

elision glottal elided possessive tilde hyphen punctuation modifier quotation comma acronyms orthographic

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