QUESTION MARK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does question mark mean? 

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

1. a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUESTION MARK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

interrogation point; question mark

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

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