quotation mark

1. 1.

   a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else

   Synonymsquoteinverted comma

   Broaderpunctuation

   Narrowersingle quotedouble quotesscare quote

Questions about quotation mark

What does quotation mark mean?

quotation mark means "a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else".

What is another word for quotation mark?

Close synonyms include quote, inverted comma. 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 quotation mark a common word?

quotation mark 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.