• (RP) IPA: /əˈpɒs.tɹə.fi/
• (America) IPA: /əˈpɑːs.tɹə.fi/

apostrophe (plural apostrophes)

1. (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.

• French: apostrophe
• German: Apostroph, Hochkomma
• Italian: apostrofo
• Portuguese: apóstrofo
• Russian: апо́стро́ф
• Spanish: apóstrofo

apostrophe

1. (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 28 ↗:

     Apostrophe a bold digression makes,
     Mov'd by some sudden thought the theme awakes.]

• catastrophe

• French: apostrophe
• Portuguese: apóstrofe
• Spanish: apóstrofe