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Apostrophe

/əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/

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

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noun

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

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Word	Definition
caronnoun	háček
apostrophynoun	Archaic spelling of apostrophe. [(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.]
apostrophizationnoun	The use of apostrophe characters.
apostrophationnoun	(rare) The omission of parts of a word by means of an apostrophe (punctuation mark), contraction.
curly apostrophenoun	(informal) A typographic apostrophe.
typographic apostrophenoun	An apostrophe that has a curved, asymmetrical form, contrasted with the straight, vertically symmetrical typewriter apostrophe.
typewriter apostrophenoun	An apostrophe that has a straight, vertically symmetrical form, contrasted with the curved typographic apostrophe.
vertical apostrophenoun	A typewriter apostrophe.
printer's apostrophenoun	(informal) A typographic apostrophe.
typographical apostrophenoun	Alternative form of typographic apostrophe. [An apostrophe that has a curved, asymmetrical form, contrasted with the straight, vertically symmetrical typewriter apostrophe.]
straight apostrophenoun	A typewriter apostrophe.
acute accentnoun	(orthography): A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
omissionnoun	(uncountable) The act of omitting.
accentnoun	(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
high commanoun	(rare, childish) An apostrophe.
circumflexnoun	A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
diacritical	Of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic.
apologetic apostrophenoun	(sociolinguistics, orthography) An apostrophe added to a Scots word in order to give the appearance that it is a contraction of an English word.
dittonoun	That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same, likewise.
brevenoun	(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.