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Definition apostrophe in British English

apostrophe noun

[countable] noun
/əˈpɒstrəfi/
1

the symbol ' used in writing. In English, it marks the possessive form of a noun, for example 'Bob's car', or a place where one or more letters have been removed from a word or phrase, for example 'isn't'.

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Definition apostrophe in British English