PUNCTUATION MARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does punctuation mark mean? 

• PUNCTUATION MARK (noun)
  The noun PUNCTUATION MARK has 1 sense:

1. the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

  Familiarity information: PUNCTUATION MARK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUNCTUATION MARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

punctuation; punctuation mark

Hypernyms ("punctuation mark" is a kind of...):

mark (a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "punctuation mark"):

exclamation mark; exclamation point (a punctuation mark (!) used after an exclamation)

swung dash (a punctuation mark used in text to indicate the omission of a word)

diagonal; separatrix; slash; solidus; stroke; virgule (a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information)

semicolon (a punctuation mark (';') used to connect independent clauses; indicates a closer relation than does a period)

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote (a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else)

interrogation point; question mark (a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question)

full point; full stop; period; point; stop (a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations)

parenthesis (either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material)

dash; hyphen (a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text)

comma (a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence)

colon (a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter))

angle bracket; bracket (either of two punctuation marks ('<' or '>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material)

bracket; square bracket (either of two punctuation marks ([ or ]) used to enclose textual material)

brace (either of two punctuation marks ({ or }) used to enclose textual material)

apostrophe (the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word)

ampersand (a punctuation mark (&) used to represent conjunction (and))

Holonyms ("punctuation mark" is a part of...):

orthography; writing system (a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols)