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Apostrophe

nounid 10340·updated May 18, 2026
verified

the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

polysemous

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Apostrophes
possessive
Apostrophe's
pluralpossessive
Apostrophes'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
§2
address to an absent or imaginary person
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

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Incoming relationships

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