quotation mark

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwəʊˈteiʃn̩ mɑɹk/

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Noun

quotation mark (plural quotation marks) (normally plural)

1. Either of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. They may look “like this” (called inverted commas) or "like this" (straight quotes).

Translations

quotation marks — see quotation marks

See also

• ditto mark
• dumb quotes
• guillemet
• inverted comma
• inverted commas
• ironic quotes
• smart quotes
• straight quote

 

Further reading

• quotation mark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
• square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )
• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
• full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
• semicolon ( ; )
• slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
• space ( ] [ )