colon-point
colon-point noun: synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.
Noun
colon-point (plural colon-points)
- Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.
- Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.1842, F. Francillon, An Essay on Punctuation, page 9
- Synonyms:
- colon ⟨
Synonyms of colon-point
- colon ⟨
Forms of colon-point
| plural | colon-points |
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Questions about colon-point
- What does colon-point mean?
- Colon-point means synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.
- What part of speech is colon-point?
- Colon-point is a noun.
- What is the plural of colon-point?
- The plural of colon-point is colon-points.
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