Apostroph — meaning in English
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English meaning
- apostrophe noun The punctuation mark ( ' ) used to show possession or mark missing letters in a contraction.
Senses
Apostroph is used for these senses in English:
- apostrophe (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
- apostrophe (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
apostrophe — full definition
- noun The punctuation mark ( ' ) used to show possession or mark missing letters in a contraction.
- noun A literary device in which a speaker addresses someone or something absent, dead, or non-human.