Associations to the word «Apostrophe»

Wiktionary

APOSTROPHE, noun. (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
APOSTROPHE, noun. (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Dictionary definition

APOSTROPHE, noun. Address to an absent or imaginary person.
APOSTROPHE, noun. The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin