Punctuation

Noun

 * 1) A set of symbols and marks which are used to clarify meaning in text by separating strings of words into clauses, phrases and sentences.

Meronyms

 * See also Thesaurus:punctuation mark

Derived terms

 * punctuation mark

Related terms

 * point
 * punctilious
 * punctuate
 * punctual
 * punctuality

Thesaurus
alphabet, ampersand, angle brackets, apostrophe, braces, colon, comma, dash, decimal point, diacritical mark, diagonal, dot, ellipsis, end stop, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, letter, parens, parentheses, period, point, punctuation marks, question mark, quotation marks, quotes, reference, reference mark, semicolon, single quotes, solidus, stop, tittle, virgule, writing system, written character

Etymology
< punctuatio: < punctuare:; see punctuate.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: tegnsætning
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ido:
 * Polish:, przestankowanie
 * Romanian: punctuație
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: skiljetecken