semicolon
nounUK /ˌsɛmiˈkəʊlən/ · US /ˈsɛmikoʊlən/
Etymology From semi- + colon.
1
The punctuation mark ;.
- The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 28:
- Derived terms
- semicolon butterfly, semicoloned
- 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, slash, stroke, space, Greek question mark