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comma-point

comma-point noun: synonym of comma ⟨,⟩.

Noun

comma-point (plural comma-points)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of comma ⟨,⟩.
    • 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:
    comma

Synonyms of comma-point

Forms of comma-point

pluralcomma-points

Questions about comma-point

What does comma-point mean?
Comma-point means synonym of comma ⟨,⟩.
What part of speech is comma-point?
Comma-point is a noun.
What is the plural of comma-point?
The plural of comma-point is comma-points.

Words near comma-point in the dictionary

  1. comma queen
  2. comma queens
  3. comma splice
  4. comma splices
  5. comma'd
  6. comma-point
  7. comma-points
  8. commacerate
  9. Commack
  10. commadore
  11. commadores

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