Associations to the word «Apostrophe»

Wiktionary

APOSTROPHE, noun. (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
APOSTROPHE, noun. (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.

Dictionary definition

APOSTROPHE, noun. Address to an absent or imaginary person.
APOSTROPHE, noun. The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word.

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.