quotation mark

Noun
  1. A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else (synset 106857249)
    is a type of: punctuation, punctuation mark - the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
    subtypes:
    • 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
    same as: inverted comma, quote

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