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Noun: apostrophe  u'pós-tru-fee
  1. Address to an absent or imaginary person
     
  2. The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Derived forms: apostrophes

Type of: punctuation, punctuation mark [Brit], rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Apostrophe

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