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Noun
/əˈpästrəfē/,
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apostrophes, plural;
  1. 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)

  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
  3. The apostrophe (’ , often rendered as ') is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. ...
  4. Apostrophe (’) is an album by Frank Zappa, his eighteenth, released on April 22, 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats. An edited version of its lead-off track, “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow”, was Zappa’s first chart single, reaching position 86. ...
  5. Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé, "turning away"; the final e being sounded) is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. ...
  6. The text character ’, that serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacrictical mark in certain rare contexts
  7. (apostrophe s) an ending ('s) added to a noun to indicate possession; EG … Harriet's daughter… the professor's husband… the Managing Director's secretary.
  8. (Apostrophes) a raised comma used to denote either possession or contraction
  9. Use apostrophes in your search term, except when the apostrophe indicates possession. For example, if you looking for the article on the Chinese deity, you will find better results if you search for T'ien rather than T ien. You don't need to use 's in your search term for possessives. ...
  10. An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. Apostrophe often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud.
  11. turning away from the divine ground (Stoics)
  12. The direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back. Thus an apostrophe often interrupts the discussion:
  13. Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. The poem God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay begins with an apostrophe: “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!/Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!/Thy mists that roll and rise!”
  14. addressing an alternate audience midstream, whether that audience be a person, group, or abstraction, present or absent.
  15. a direct address to a person, thing, or abstraction, such as "O Western Wind," or "Ah, Sorrow, you consume us." Apostrophes are generally capitalized.
  16. Why is it “Old 97’s” and not “Old 97s”? Are the Old 97’s confused about the rules of grammar? No. “Do any of you have Webster’s grammar books? If you do, look up the section on apostrophes. ...
  17. In rhetoric, this does not mean a punctuation symbol. It is a direct address to someone or something which cannot answer, either because he/she is not there or because it is an inanimate object. The verb is "to apostrophise". Thus in "Ode to a Grecian Urn", Keats apostrophises the urn.
  18. A figure of speech where an object or abstract entity is addressed
  19. rhetoric: addressing an absent or imaginary person or thing: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
  20. language addressed to a person, animal, object, or other entity that is not present. See Talk to Animals (and Stars).
  21. From Greek ἀποστροφή, a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing.
  22. apóstrofe (directly addressing an absent person, abstract idea or nonhuman object, often with the exclamation "O" or "Oh");
  23. a figure of speech in which a poem seems to speak to something that cannot respond. Here, Lord Tennyson's "Break, Break, Break" is addressing the sea:
  24. A statement, question, or request addressed to an inanimate object or concept or to a nonexistent or absent person.
  25. is used to indicate possession, contractions, and plurals.