Meaning of Apostrophe | Babel Free
əˈpɒs.tɹə.fiDefinitions
- A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
- An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
- Dated spelling of apostrophe.
- The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
Equivalents
Azərbaycanca
apostrof
Беларуская
апостраф
Български
апостроф
Català
apòstrof
Dansk
apostrof
Esperanto
apostrofo
Magyar
aposztróf
Հայերեն
ապաթարց
Bahasa Indonesia
apostrof
Íslenska
úrfellingarmerki
한국어
아포스트로피
Lëtzebuergesch
Apostroph
Latviešu
apostrofs
Te Reo Māori
pakini
Македонски
апостроф
Română
apostrof
Русский
апостроф
Shqip
apostrof
ไทย
อะพอสทรอฟี
Tagalog
kudlit
Українська
апостроф
Tiếng Việt
dấu lược
Examples
“Since its inception the apostrophe has been a controversial piece of punctuation.”
“Apostrophe a bold digression makes, Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes.”
“The warm apostrophe of Riccardini to this little representative of his parents, whom he called "the son of his love, the child of his old age, the gift of his beloved niece, on the behalf of his angel-daughter," affected them all;...”
“As is well known, chloroplast in the epistrophe position presents an oval or more or less circular form; in the apostrophe position a flattened and lenticular form.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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