apostrophe

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Noun apostrophe has 2 senses

apostrophe - address to an absent or imaginary person
--₁ is a kind of rhetorical device
apostrophe - the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
--₂ is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark

Derived forms: verb apostrophize₁, verb apostrophise₁

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