single quote

1. 1.

   a single quotation mark

   Broaderquotation mark

Questions about single quote

What does single quote mean?

single quote means "a single quotation mark".

Is single quote a common word?

single quote 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.