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’

’ punctuation: indicating the omission of letters or digits.

Punctuation

’

  1. Indicating the omission of letters or digits.
    • tho’, they’ll, ’65, ’ospital, intl.

Questions about ’

What does ’ mean?
’ means indicating the omission of letters or digits.
What part of speech is ’?
’ is a punctuation.

Words near ’ in the dictionary

  1. —s
  2. —t
  3. —z
  4. ‘
  5. ‘ ’
  6. ’
  7. “ ”
  8. ′
  9. ⁿᵈ
  10. ₣u¢k
  11. ₣u¢ked

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