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apostrophe

Definition of apostrophe (English)

noun

  1. address to an absent or imaginary person
    sumber: wordnet30
  2. the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
    sumber: wordnet30
  3. 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."
    sumber: webster1913