Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK English) One of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. The symbol used at the beginning of the quotation ''("opening quotation mark")'' is usually '''“''' ("open inverted commas") or '''‘''' ("open inverted comma"), and the symbol at the end ''("closing quotation mark") is '''”''' ("close inverted commas") or '''’''' ("close inverted comma"). 2 (context North America English) One of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing. The same symbol is now typically used at both the beginning and the end of the quotation, which is usually the "double quotes" or "straight quotes" symbol '''"''', although the "single quote" or "straight quote" symbol '''' ''' is sometimes used, especially to denote a quotation within a quotation.
WordNet
n. a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else [syn: quote, inverted comma]
Wikipedia
Quotation marks, also called quotes, quote marks, quotemarks, speech marks, inverted commas or talking marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character.
Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media.
Usage examples of "quotation mark".
The name cannot contain a space or quotation mark, and must begin with an alphabetic character to avoid ambiguity with numbered access lists.
There were buttons for the basic functions START, HOLD, NEW, ERASE, quotation mark, period, comma, paragraph, colon, and two scrolling buttons.
They figured the exclamation point and the quotation mark were all any reasonable person needed for discourse, along with the underline, naturally.