INVERTED COMMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inverted comma mean? 

• INVERTED COMMA (noun)
  The noun INVERTED COMMA has 1 sense:

1. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

  Familiarity information: INVERTED COMMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVERTED COMMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

Hypernyms ("inverted comma" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inverted comma"):

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)