Definitions of punctuation [ˌpʌŋk tʃuˈeɪ ʃən]

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Definition of 'punctuation'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) punctuation
the practice or system of using certain conventional marks or characters in writing or printing in order to separate elements and make the meaning clear, as in ending a sentence or separating clauses.

2. punctuation
punctuation marks.

3. punctuation
the act of punctuating.

Etymology: (1530–40; < ML pūnctuātiō marking, pointing)

Definition of 'punctuation'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) punctuation
something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

2. (noun) punctuation, punctuation mark
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

3. (noun) punctuation
the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases

Definition of 'punctuation'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) punctuation
marks such as periods, commas, etc. used in writing
Make sure to use the proper punctuation.

Definition of 'punctuation'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) punctuation
the act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning

Translation of 'punctuation'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the act of punctuating.
Afrikaans: leestekens aanbring	Arabic: تَشْكيل الجُمَل، وَضْع عل	Bulgarian: пунктуация
Brazilian: pontuação	Czech: rozčlenění na části	German: die Interpunktion
Danish: tegnsætning	Greek: στίξη	Spanish: puntuación
Estonian: kirjavahemärgistus	Farsi: تقطه گذاری	Finnish: varustaa välimerkein
French: ponctuation	Hebrew: מְנָקֵד	Hindi: विरामादि विधान
Hungarian: írásjelek kitevése	Indonesian: pemberian tanda baca	Icelandic: greinarmerkjasetning
Italian: punteggiatura	Japanese: 句読	Korean: 구두점 사용
Lithuanian: skyrybosženklų dėjimas	Latvian: pieturzīmju lietošana	Malay: membubuh tanda baca
Dutch: het aanbrengen van leeste	Norwegian: tegnsetting	Polish: stosowanie interpunkcji
Persian: تقطه گذاری	Pashto: ټكى ايښودل	Portuguese: pontuação
Romanian: (punere a semnelor de) pu	Russian: расстановка знаков препин	Slovak: rozčlenenie na časti
Slovenian: postavljanje ločil	Serbian: stavljanje znakova interp	Swedish: interpunktion
Thai: การคั่นประโยค	Turkish: noktalama işaretlerini ko	Taiwanese: 標點
Ukrainian: розставляння розділових з	Urdu: رموز اوقاف کے لگانے کا عم	Vietnamese: sự chấm câu
Chinese: 标点
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