Look up: apostrophe

1. apostrophe
   Plural form: apostrophes. A punctuation mark used to show when letters have been missed out of words or that something belongs to something else.
   Example: The party's booked for Friday. That's George's birthday.
   Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary
   
   
2. Apostrophe
   a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.
   *For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
   Found on http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.
   
   
3. Apostrophe
   Poem which is directly addressed to a person or thing (often absent). An example is Wordsworth's sonnet Milton which begins: 'Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour'. NB not to be confused with an apostrophe indicating missing letters or the possessive case. Other examples of apostrophe includ...
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4. apostrophe
   [n] - address to an absent or imaginary person 2. [n] - the mark (`) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
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5. Apostrophe
   A·pos'tro·phe noun [ (1) Latin , from Greek ... a turning away, from ... to turn away; ... from + ... to turn. (2) F., from Latin apostrophus apostrophe, the turning away or omitting of a letter, Greek ....] 1. (Rhet.) A figure of s...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/105
   
   
6. apostrophe
   noun address to an absent or imaginary person
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7. Apostrophe
   • (n.) 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. • (n.) A figure of speech by whic...
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8. apostrophe
   a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing. For example, in William Shakespeare`s ... [1 related articles]
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/89
   
   
9. apostrophe
   single quote
   Found on http://foldoc.org/apostrophe
   
   
10. apostrophe
    an address to a dead or absent person or personification as if he or she were present.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r
    
    
11. apostrophe
    
    • address to an absent or imaginary person
    • the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
    
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12. apostrophe
    apostrophe, figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. The term is derived from a Greek word meaning “a turning away,” and this sense is maintained when a narrative or dramatic thread is broken in order to ...
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13. apostrophe
    apostrophe: see punctuation; abbreviation.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0
    
    
14. Apostrophe
    The apostrophe is a rhetorical figure by which the orator changes the course of his speech, and makes a short impassioned address to one absent as if he were present, or to things without life and sense as if they had life and sense. The same term is also applied to a comma when used to contract a w...
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15. apostrophe
    (grammar) Punctuation mark (') used in written English and some other languages. In English it serves primarily to indicate either a missing letter (mustn't for must not) or number ('47 for 1947), or gramma...
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16. Apostrophe
    The `apostrophe` (&nbsp;<span style="font-family:serif">’</span>&nbsp;, often rendered as &nbsp;`&nbsp;) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purp...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
    
    
17. Apostrophe
    (`) `Apostrophe (`)` is an album by accessdate = 2011-04-01-->--> in both Stereophonic sound|stereo and publisher=Allmusic-->--> and reached number 10 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart. Continuing from the commercial breakthrough of Over-Nite Sensation (1973), this al...
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