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interrogative-point

interrogative-point noun: synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.

Noun

interrogative-point (plural interrogative-points)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
    • 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:
    question mark

Synonyms of interrogative-point

Forms of interrogative-point

pluralinterrogative-points

Origin of interrogative-point

From the Latin punctus interrogativus.

Questions about interrogative-point

What does interrogative-point mean?
Interrogative-point means synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
What part of speech is interrogative-point?
Interrogative-point is a noun.
What is the plural of interrogative-point?
The plural of interrogative-point is interrogative-points.

Words near interrogative-point in the dictionary

  1. interrogative
  2. interrogative adjective
  3. interrogative adjectives
  4. interrogative pronoun
  5. interrogative pronouns
  6. interrogative-point
  7. interrogative-points
  8. interrogatively
  9. interrogativeness
  10. interrogatives
  11. interrogativity

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