Crossword Solver
Crossword Clue
Hidden Word
Word Meaning
Synonym
Anagram Solver
Find Word
Word Meaning
Find the meaning or definition of a english word
Submit
apostrophes definition and meaning
n.
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."
n.
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.
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.
Crossword clues for apostrophes
- It has a role to play in contractions
- Punctuation mark
- Raised comma in text
- Punctuation marks
- They appear when letters go missing
- They are often present for the contractions
Latest view
bacterioscopic
careened
stab
smoggy
virent
padnag
helicopters
nurse
vagient
globiferous
misinterprets
metoo
breedbate
tibial
t cart
globe shaped
formulization
dosed
on the square
ovenware
Popular word
crossword clue
spectrum luminosity diagram
uret
horseweed
ent
oppugned
vesico
pasilaly
meta
send on
ear for music
sherlock
financial remuneration
unchivalrous
clanging
basi
any which way
burial case
schwann's white substance
nemato
Random word
Loon
Custom
Solon
Haulm
Quaternate
Centrums
Haranguing
Enteron
Spring
Geodesic
Function
Spectacled
Thoracometer
Talent
Nymphomany
Capstone
Thialdine
Elytra
Slickensides
Inexplosive