INVERTED COMMA

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

inverted comma; quotation mark; quote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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)