Colon

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a punctuation mark (:) used after a word introducing a series or an example or an explanation (or after the salutation of a business letter)

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Colons
possessive
Colon's
pluralpossessive
Colons'