Quotation mark
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English
Noun
- A symbol used to denote a quotation in writing, written at the beginning and end of the quotation. The symbols vary across languages, and slightly different marks are used for the beginning and end. Those used in English are “ ... ”, or " ... ", and ‘ ... ’, or ' ... '.
- Example: “this is a quotation.” Here is another ‘another quotation.’
- For more information, see the Wikipedia article on quotation marks
Synonyms
- (of the plural) quotes, speech marks
Translations
- Bulgarian: кавичка f, кавички pl (usually the plural form is used)
- Catalan: cometa f
- Dutch: aanhalingsteken n
- Finnish: lainausmerkki
- French: guillemet m
- German: Anführungszeichen n
- Italian: virgoletta f
- Slovene: narekovaj m
- Spanish: comilla f
See Also
Punctuation
| Symbol | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| ' | apostrophe | |
| [ and ] | bracket (US), square bracket (British) | |
| : | colon | |
| , | comma | |
| — | dash, em rule | |
| – | en rule | |
| ! | exclamation mark | |
| - | hyphen | |
| ( and ) | parenthesis, bracket (British) | |
| . | period (US), full stop (British) | |
| ? | question mark | |
| " or ' | quotation mark, quote, inverted commas (British) | |
| ; | semicolon |
