quotation mark
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quotation mark
noun
plural
quotation marks
quotation mark
noun
plural
quotation marks
Britannica Dictionary definition of QUOTATION MARK
[count]
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one of a pair of punctuation marks “ ” or ‘ ’ that are used to show the beginning and the end of a quotation, to show that something is a title, to show that a word or phrase is being used in a special way, etc.
— usually plural
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There were quotation marks around the phrase. = The phrase was in quotation marks.
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Titles of newspaper articles should be placed/put in quotation marks.
— called also
(British)
inverted comma
