inverted comma

nounBritish.

quotation mark.

Origin of inverted comma

First recorded in 1780–90

Also called turned comma.

Words Nearby inverted comma

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How to use inverted comma in a sentence

Sometimes it had a tail (“punctus caudatus”) and looked not unlike an inverted comma.
How to Write Music | Clement A. Harris
The former consist of one inverted comma and one apostrophe; the latter, of two inverted commas and two apostrophes.
Why We Punctuate | William Livingston Klein
An inverted comma placed over a letter denotes that the sound of our h precedes that letter.
New Word-Analysis | William Swinton

British Dictionary definitions for inverted comma

inverted comma

noun

another term for quotation mark

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