quotation mark
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩ mɑɹk/
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Noun
quotation mark (plural quotation marks) (normally plural)
- Either of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. They may look “like this” (called inverted commas) or "like this" (straight quotes).
Derived terms
Translations
quotation marks — see quotation marks
See also
Further reading
quotation mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
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