Definition of apostrophes Apostrophes
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What does apostrophes mean?
Wiktionary 
- apostrophes (Noun)
Plural of apostrophe.
Part of speech
🔤- apostrophes, noun, plural of apostrophe.
WordNet
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| apostrophe - the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | ||
| punctuation mark, punctuation the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases | ||
| apostrophe - address to an absent or imaginary person | ||
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Wiktionary
- apostrophe (Noun)
The text character ’, that serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts. - apostrophe (Noun)
A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- apostrophe (n.)
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost." - apostrophe (n.)
The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called. - apostrophe (n.)
The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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apostrophe
A mark (') which is used to show that a letter or letters has/have been omitted from a word.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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apostrophe
a-pos′trof-e, n. (rhet.) a sudden turning away from the ordinary course of a speech to address some person or object present or absent, explained by Quintilian as addressed to a person present, but extended by modern use to the absent or dead: a mark (') showing the omission of a letter or letters in a word, also a sign of the modern Eng. genitive or possessive case—orig. a mere mark of the dropping of the letter e in writing.—adj. Apostroph′ic.—v.t. Apos′trophise, to address by apostrophe. [Gr. apo, from, and Strophe, a turning.]
Wikipedia 
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An apostrophe is a form of punctuation used in writing. The following words have an apostrophe in them: can't, it's, Mike's.
This is a wrong use of an apostrophe: Those dog's are big.
Apostrophes are used to show that some letters have been taken out in an abbreviation.
Apostropes are also used to show something belongs to someone (or something).
But the word 'its', meaning 'something belonging to it', does "not" have an apostrophe.
This is also the same with "your," "their," and "our."
for example: That's not mine, it's yours. That's not ours, it's theirs.
You should not put an apostrophe in the middle of a word ending in s, such as a plural. Put an apostrophe, or 's, at the end of the word instead.
"Go get 'em tiger!" or "Li'l Bow Bow"
Part of speech
🔤- apostrophe, noun, singular of apostrophes.
