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QUOTATION MARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quotation mark mean? 

QUOTATION MARK (noun)
  The noun QUOTATION MARK has 1 sense:

1. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone elseplay

  Familiarity information: QUOTATION MARK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUOTATION MARK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

Hypernyms ("quotation mark" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quotation mark"):

single quote (a single quotation mark)

double quotes (a pair of quotation marks)

scare quote (the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology)


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