Associations to the word «Apostrophe»
Verb
Adverb
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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.