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Definitions of apostrophe in various dictionaries:
noun - address to an absent or imaginary person
noun - the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
The superscript sign (’) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, and the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.
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| When "do not" and "should not" are contracted, this mark of punctuation is used to show missing letters |
| Rhetorically, "Hello darkness, my old friend" is termed this, just like a punctuation mark |
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| a punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g. iHarryi ' is booki iboysi ' icoatsi ) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. icani ' iti ihei ' isi i1 Jan.i ' i99i ). |
| The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations. |
| The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition. |
| A punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g. Harry's book boys' coats) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. can't he's 1 Jan. '99). |
| An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). |
| the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word |
| address to an absent or imaginary person |
| the symbol used in writing to show when a letter or a number has been left out, as in I'm ( I am) or '85 ( 1985), or that is used before or after s to show possession, as in Helen's house or babies' hands: |
| sometimes used before s to show the plural of a number or a letter: |
| a mark () used in writing to show that a letter or a number has been omitted, or before or after s to show possession |
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The apostrophe (' or ) character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English it is used for several purposes: * The marking of the omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't). * The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in the eagle's feathers, or in one month's time). * The marking of plurals of individual characters (e.g. p's and q's).The word apostrophe comes ultimately from Greek [] (h apóstrophos [prosidía], '[the accent of] turning away or elision'), through Latin and French.The apostrophe looks the same as a closing single quotation mark in many fonts, although they have different meanings, and Unicode recommends using the quotation mark character to represent most uses of the apostrophe. The apostrophe also looks similar to, but is not the same as, the prime symbol ( ), which is used to indicate measurement in feet or arcminutes, as well as for various mathem |