double dagger

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   a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote

   Synonymsdouble obeliskdiesis

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Questions about double dagger

What does double dagger mean?

double dagger means "a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote".

What is another word for double dagger?

Close synonyms include double obelisk, diesis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double dagger a common word?

double dagger is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.