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apostrophe
noun
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Definition of apostrophe:

apostrophe (noun):
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word.
a mark ' used to indicate the omission of letters or figures, the possessive case (as in "john's book"), or the plural of letters or figures (as in "the 1960's")

Synonyms for apostrophe:

punctuation

Antonyms for apostrophe:

uniformityaccordagreementsimilarity

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