address to an absent or imaginary person
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
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."