EGAVE

apostrophe

About 0.49 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
  2. noun A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
  3. noun An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).

Similar words

caron apostrophy apostrophization apostrophation curly apostrophe typographic apostrophe typewriter apostrophe vertical apostrophe printer's apostrophe typographical apostrophe

Often followed by

to and is in of with after or only

Word family

apostrophes apostrophic

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