quotation mark

quotation mark

n.

Either of a pair of punctuation marks used primarily to mark the beginning and end of a passage attributed to another and repeated word for word, but also to indicate meanings or glosses and to indicate the unusual or dubious status of a word. They appear in the form of double quotation marks (" ") and single quotation marks (' '). Single quotation marks are usually reserved for setting off a quotation within another quotation.

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Noun

1.

quotation mark - a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else inverted comma, quote punctuation mark, punctuation - the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases 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