apostrophes
- 1Plural of apostrophe.
The editor flagged several misplaced apostrophes in the manuscript.
Many shop signs add apostrophes to ordinary plurals where they don't belong.
Note
A regular -s plural that carries every meaning of the singular. On a page it counts punctuation marks. In rhetoric it counts speeches: each sudden address to someone or something absent is an apostrophe, though the figure as a technique is uncountable and takes no plural. Botanists use it too, for arrangements of chlorophyll grains set perpendicular to a cell's outer surface, in contrast to epistrophe.
apostrophes is a form of apostrophe
apostrophe, noun: A written character (') serving as a punctuation mark across many languages and, in rare cases, as a diacritical mark. Full entry
- Forms
- apostropheapostrophes plural
- Spelling
- apostrophe → apostrophes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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