punctuation mark
noun1
Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc., and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.
- Synonyms
- punctuation mark
- Related terms
25 terms
apostrophe, curly brackets, brace, square bracket, bracket, colon, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation mark, fraction slash, guillemet, hyphen, interpunct, interrobang, parentheses (US, Canada), full stop, period, question mark, quotation marks, semicolon, slash, stroke, space- Hypernyms
- symbol
- Hyponyms
- apostrophe: ' or ’, bracket [⇒ thesaurus]: ] or [ or ) or (, colon: :, comma:, dash [⇒ thesaurus]: — or –, ellipsis: …, endmark: ., exclamation mark: !, full stop: ., period [⇒ thesaurus]: ., hyphen: -, interrobang: ‽ or ?!, question mark: ?, quotation mark: " or ” or “ or ' or ’ or ‘, semicolon: ;, slash: /, solidus: /, space:, interpunct: ·, virgule: /
- Holonyms
- punctuation