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1. (n.) apostrophe
the sign ('), as used: to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounced, as in o'er for over, or pronounced, as in gov't for government; to indicate the possessive case, as in woman's; or to indicate plurals of abbreviations and symbols, as in
several M.D.'s, 3's.
2. (n.) apostrophe
a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea.
Etymology: (1525–35; < LL < Gk apostrophē a turning away, n. der. of apostréphein; see apostrophe1)
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| Definition of 'apostrophe' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) apostrophe
address to an absent or imaginary person
2. (noun) apostrophe
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
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1. (noun) apostrophe
a punctuation mark indicating possession
Helen's book
2. apostrophe
a punctuation mark indicating a missing letter
it's/weren't/they're, etc.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) apostrophe
a figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
2. (noun) apostrophe
the contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called
3. (noun) apostrophe
the mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e
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Sense: a mark (') which is used to show that a letter or letters has/have been omitted from a word, and which is also used in possessive phrases and in the plurals of letters
the boy's coat; the boys' coats; There are two n's in `cannot' but only one in `can't'.
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 Afrikaans: apostroof |
 Arabic: عَلامَة المُلْكِيَّة، إشا |
 Bulgarian: апостроф |
 Brazilian: apóstrofe |
 Czech: apostrof |
 German: der Apostroph |
 Danish: apostrof |
 Greek: απόστροφος (γραμμ.) |
 Spanish: apóstrofo |
 Estonian: ülakoma |
 Farsi: آپوستروف |
 Finnish: heittomerkki |
 French: apostrophe |
 Hebrew: גֶרֶש |
 Hindi: वर्णलोप का चिह्न |
 Croatian: apostrof |
 Hungarian: aposztróf |
 Indonesian: tanda petik |
 Icelandic: úrfellingarmerki |
 Italian: apostrofo |
 Japanese: アポストロフィ |
 Korean: 아포스트로피(') |
 Lithuanian: apostrofa |
 Latvian: apostrofs |
 Malay: terbalik |
 Dutch: apostrof |
 Norwegian: apostrof |
 Polish: apostrof |
 Persian: آپوستروف |
 Pashto: غړوندی |
 Portuguese: apóstrofe |
 Romanian: apostrof |
 Russian: апостроф |
 Slovak: apostrof |
 Slovenian: apostrof |
 Serbian: apostrof |
 Swedish: apostrof[tecken] |
 Thai: เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน ( ' ) |
 Turkish: kesme işareti, tepeden vi |
 Taiwanese: 撇號 |
 Ukrainian: апостроф |
 Urdu: حذفی علامت ، حذفیہ |
 Vietnamese: dấu móc lửng (') |
 Chinese: 撇号 |
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