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INVERTED COMMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
Synonyms:
inverted comma; quotation mark; quote
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("inverted comma" 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 "inverted comma"):
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)
