English dictionary
apostrophe
/@/'p/A/str/@/f/i/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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address to an absent or imaginary person
Source: WordNet 3.0
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the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
Source: WordNet 3.0
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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 <i>apostrophe</i> to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."
Source: webster1913