APOSTROPHE
\ɐpˈɒstɹəfɪ], \ɐpˈɒstɹəfɪ], \ɐ_p_ˈɒ_s_t_ɹ_ə_f_ɪ]\
Definitions of APOSTROPHE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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."
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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.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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."
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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.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A breaking off in a speech to address a person or persons who may or may not be present; the gign, used to denote the omission from a word of one or more letters, or to denote the possessive case of nouns.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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(rhet.) A sudden turning away from the subject to address some person or object present or absent: a mark (') , showing the omission of a letter.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A symbol (') above the line, to mark omission, or possessive, etc.
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An address to an absent person, an attribute, etc.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Greek] A change of the course of a speech; a diversion ;—a change, in speaking, from one party to another a turning from the real auditory to address an absent or imaginary one;—the contraction of a word by the omission of a letter, noted by a mark above the line ; as, call’d for called.
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