APOSTROPHE

Apostrophe

The apostrophe is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes:

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apostrophe

Noun

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

Noun (etymology 2)

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


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