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    QUOTATION MARK

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone elseplay

    Synonyms:

    inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("quotation mark" 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 "quotation mark"):

    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)

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