Apostrophe is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APOSTROPHE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically
• an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).
• A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton\'s apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of \"Paradise Lost.\"
• The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character [\'] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call\'d for called.
• The mark [\'] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne\'er for never, can\'t for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy\'s hat, boys\' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
• address to an absent or imaginary person
• the mark (\') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
• a punctuation mark (') used to indicate either possession (e.g. Harry's book; boys' coats) or the omission of letters or numbers (e.g. can't; he's; 1 Jan. '99).
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically

Words related to APOSTROPHE

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Words that contain APOSTROPHE

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How to use APOSTROPHE in a sentence

• He turned as she broke into this fervid apostrophe.
• In the conclusion is the famous apostrophe to Death, which suggests what Raleigh might have done had he lived less strenuously and written more carefully.
• I have heard a still coarser apostrophe by the same gentleman.
• All who heard this apostrophe to the abode of the Augustines were struck with its simplicity and its moral.
• Some of these approve of the apostrophe, and others do not.
• But the apostrophe, whatever may have been its origin, is now the acknowledged distinctive mark of the possessive case of English nouns.
• In words that are well understood to be contracted in pronunciation, the apostrophe is now less frequently used than it was formerly.
• It seems, however, that the necessity is spared of my making so pathetic an apostrophe.
• Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.
• Apostrophe addressed to Constantinople and its people 22.
• Nothing can be more spirited than the enthusiasm of Hector, who, in the transport of his joy, breaks out in the following apostrophe to his horses.
• It was the day of the silver tongue, the sweeping gesture, the decorative apostrophe, the moving peroration.
• Candidate in India listened to an apostrophe to the God of Nature, 361-l.
• Initiates, apostrophe of Euripides and Aristophanes to the, 357-l.
• When we directly address inanimate objects or the absent as if they were present, we call the figure of speech thus formed apostrophe.
• This apostrophe is, therefore, a mixture of surprise, soldierly bluntness and joviality.
• I had a long apostrophe to the goddess with my back turned to the audience, and I never tackled anything more difficult.
• Apostrophe is made natural by the semi-dramatic quality of the situation.
• Lord Byron in his celebrated apostrophe to the ocean could hardly omit a reference to the most destructive conflict of naval warfare within the present century.
• As that Apostrophe, where the Shepherd calls upon the Works of Nature to assist him in his Grief.

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