Definition for Apostrophe:

• A symbol ( ') above the line, to mark omission, or possessive, etc.

Synonyms for Apostrophe:

• n.

  •communication (noun)
  • apostrophe.
  •digression (noun)
  • note,
  • difference,
  • excursion,
  • rambling,
  • obiter dictum,
  • incident,
  • divagation,
  • wandering,
  • departure,
  • aside,
  • footnote,
  • drifting,
  • diversion,
  • detour,
  • excursus,
  • episode,
  • divergence.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • litotes,
  • conceit,
  • metonymy,
  • anaphora,
  • metaphor,
  • way of speaking,
  • parallel,
  • analogue,
  • metonymies,
  • malapropisms,
  • flower,
  • hyperbole,
  • Asyndeton,
  • expression,
  • understatement,
  • tropes,
  • parable,
  • allegory,
  • ellipsis,
  • alliteration,
  • device,
  • malapropism,
  • personification,
  • Ellipses,
  • image,
  • onomatopoeias,
  • oxymoron,
  • anticlimax,
  • synecdoche,
  • antithesis,
  • ornament,
  • oxymora,
  • antistrophe,
  • proteron,
  • allusion,
  • trope,
  • rhetoric,
  • comparison,
  • echoism,
  • paradox,
  • imagery,
  • euphemism,
  • sarcasm,
  • simile,
  • euphuism,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • bathos,
  • flourish,
  • aposiopesis,
  • irony,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • exaggeration,
  • satire,
  • Tropology,
  • turn of phrase,
  • manner of speaking,
  • analogy,
  • alliterations,
  • adumbration.
  •stream of consciousness (noun)
  • free association,
  • interior monologue.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • supplication,
  • invocation,
  • soliloquy,
  • address,
  • appeal,
  • speech.
  •punctuation
  • bad break,
  • point,
  • brace,
  • punctuate,
  • quotation marks,
  • hyphen,
  • slash,
  • exclamation point,
  • dash,
  • comma,
  • inverted comma,
  • ampersand,
  • semicolon,
  • question mark,
  • curly brackets,
  • ditto,
  • dot,
  • bracket,
  • speech marks,
  • bullet point,
  • space,
  • hyphenate,
  • decimal point,
  • colon,
  • scare quotes,
  • bullet,
  • square bracket,
  • full stop,
  • quote.

Antonyms for Apostrophe:

• n.

  • digression
    straightness, directness, sameness, accord, agreement, similarity.
  • irrelevancy
    conformity, uniformity.

Apostrophe Sentence Examples:

• Nevertheless, so soon as the apostrophe ended, Boussingault appeared to forget all about it.

• The cat starts - not at his mistress's complimentary apostrophe, but at a knock at the door, which follows close upon it.

Hyponym for Apostrophe:

• n.

  • communication
    rhetorical device, punctuation, punctuation mark.