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colon-points

colon-points is the plural of colon-point.

Meaning of colon-point

Noun

colon-point (plural colon-points)

  1. (obsolete) 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 ⟨

Questions about colon-points

What is colon-points the plural of?
Colon-points is the plural of colon-point.

Words near colon-points in the dictionary

  1. colon hydrotherapy
  2. colon therapies
  3. colon therapy
  4. colon-
  5. colon-point
  6. colon-points
  7. colonade
  8. colonades
  9. colonalgia
  10. colonate
  11. colonates

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