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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) quotation mark
one of the marks used to indicate the beginning and end of a quotation, in English usu. shown as (“) at the beginning and (”) at the end, or, for a quotation within a quotation, as single marks of this kind, as
“He said, ‘I will go.'”

Etymology: (1880–85)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) quotation mark, quote, inverted comma
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

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