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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-pos-truh-fee |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈpɒs trə fi |
Definition of apostrophe
Origin :- mark indicating omitted letter, 1580s, from Middle French apostrophe, from Late Latin apostrophus, from Greek apostrophos (prosoidia) "(the accent of) turning away," thus, a mark showing where a letter has been omitted, from apostrephein "avert, turn away," from apo- "from" (see apo-) + strephein "to turn" (see strophe).
- In English, the mark often represents loss of -e- in -es, possessive ending. It was being extended to all possessives, whether they ever had an -e- or not, by 18c. Greek also used this word for a "turning aside" of an orator in speech to address some individual, a sense first recorded in English 1530s.
- As in stream of consciousness : noun word association
- As in irrelevancy : noun digression
- As in parenthesis : noun digression
- As in digression : noun deviation; straying
- As in figure of speech : noun turn of expression
- The apostrophe to the heroism of the soldiers is sickly and pale.
- Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski
- Bobinette did not seem to understand one word of this apostrophe.
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- And he added the apostrophe, "What a revolutionary torrent is the Loire!"
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
- The apostrophe is used to indicate that some letter or letters of a word are left out.
- Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
- The mark for the apostrophe; and also the marks for inverted commas.
- Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
- The letter "s" is added, and the apostrophe is placed before it.
- Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
- If the plural do not end in "s," an "s" is added, and the apostrophe is placed before it.
- Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
- The apostrophe is used before the "s" of the plural when single letters are used as words.
- Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
- Nouns in the plural ending in s take an apostrophe only to form the possessive.
- Extract from : « Punctuation » by Frederick W. Hamilton
- The apostrophe is used to form the plural of letters and figures.
- Extract from : « Punctuation » by Frederick W. Hamilton
Synonyms for apostrophe
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- aside
- association of ideas
- asyndeton
- bathos
- chain of thought
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- deflection
- departure
- detour
- deviation
- device
- difference
- discursion
- divagation
- divergence
- divergency
- diversion
- drifting
- echoism
- ellipsis
- episode
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- excursion
- excursus
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- footnote
- free association
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- incident
- inner monologue
- interior monologue
- irony
- irrelevancy
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mind mapping
- note
- obiter dictum
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- parenthesis
- personification
- proteron
- rambling
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- tangent
- train of thought
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- variation
- wandering
- way of speaking
- word painting
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