Word.ws English Dictionary

oblique strokes

oblique strokes is the plural of oblique stroke.

Meaning of oblique stroke

Noun

oblique stroke (plural oblique strokes)

  1. Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
    • The oblique, short for oblique stroke or line, is written /, originally the French way of writing or printing a comma.1953, Eric Partridge, You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies, page 155
    Synonyms:
    slash

Questions about oblique strokes

What is oblique strokes the plural of?
Oblique strokes is the plural of oblique stroke.

Words near oblique strokes in the dictionary

  1. oblique step
  2. oblique strain
  3. oblique strains
  4. Oblique Strategies
  5. oblique stroke
  6. oblique strokes
  7. oblique subject
  8. oblique subjects
  9. oblique system of coordinates
  10. oblique tone
  11. oblique tones

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oblique strokes (page history and authors); oblique stroke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oblique strokes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oblique_strokes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.