Usually means: Punctuation mark indicating possession, omission.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word apostrophe:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. apostrophe: Merriam-Webster
  2. apostrophe, apostrophe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apostrophe, apostrophe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apostrophe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apostrophe: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apostrophe, apostrophe: Wordnik
  7. apostrophe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apostrophe: Wiktionary
  9. apostrophe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apostrophe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apostrophe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apostrophe: Dictionary.com
  13. apostrophe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. apostrophe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Apostrophe('), Apostrophe ('), Apostrophe (album), Apostrophe (disambiguation), Apostrophe (figure of speech), Apostrophe (mark), Apostrophe (punctuation), Apostrophe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Apostrophe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. apostrophe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. apostrophe: Rhymezone
  19. apostrophe, apostrophe (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. apostrophe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. apostrophe: FreeDictionary.org
  22. apostrophe: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. apostrophe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. apostrophe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. apostrophe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. apostrophe: Merriam-Webster

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Apostrophe: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  6. APOSTROPHE: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apostrophe: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. apostrophe: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. apostrophe: CCI Computer
  3. Apostrophe (mark), Apostrophe (punctuation), apostrophe: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. apostrophe: A Word A Day
  2. apostrophe: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. apostrophe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Apostrophe: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See apostrophes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
noun:  (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
noun:  (botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epostrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).

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