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Apostrophe Common

Apostrophe has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

address to an absent or imaginary person

2

the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

3

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

4

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

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
rhetorical device punctuation

Origin

The word apostrophe comes from the French and Latin forms of the Ancient Greek term for "accent of elision." This original meaning refers to turning away, derived from a phrase that literally means "away from" combined with "to turn."

Rhyming Words
raphe ouphe diphe rhaphe elaphe nymphe strophe adolphe rodolphe triomphe erysiphe theosophe philosophe christophe anastrophe epistrophe pseudoraphe hypostrophe bathyscaphe catastrophe
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