Associations to the word «Apostrophe»
Noun
- Plural
- Quotation
- Consonant
- Orthography
- Unicode
- Vowel
- Typewriter
- Omission
- Contraction
- Exclamation
- Noun
- Spelling
- Constructor
- Pronoun
- Phoneme
- Syllable
- Colon
- Pronunciation
- Typing
- Singular
- Accent
- Abbreviation
- Alphabet
- Italic
- Quote
- Giles
- Font
- Spacing
- Aspiration
- Parenthesis
- Wade
- Cor
- Inflection
- Ambiguity
- Belarusian
- Suffix
- Dash
- Termination
- Octave
- Dot
- Acronym
- Digit
- Mark
- Names
- Symbol
- Ending
- Usage
- Letter
- Adjective
- Eloquence
- Stop
- Prefix
- Transcription
- Ng
- Byron
- Confusion
- Gram
- Closing
- Verb
- Wedge
Adjective
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
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say
"infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no
word left when you want to talk about something really
infinite.