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"OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN . . . "
Answer for the clue ""OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN . . . " ", 10 letters:
apostrophe
Alternative clues for the word apostrophe
- Character in "All's Well That Ends Well" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- Contraction punctuation
- It's often abused by grocers dealing with multiples
- Address to an absent or imaginary person
- Entr'acte part
- Jack-o'-lantern feature
- The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
- Cat-o'-nine-tails feature
Word definitions for apostrophe in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apostrophe \A*pos"tro*phe\, n. [(1) L., fr. Gr. ? a turning away, fr. ? to turn away; ? from + ? to turn. (2) F., fr. L. apostrophus apostrophe, the turning away or omitting of a letter, Gr. ?.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. address to an absent or imaginary person the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
Usage examples of apostrophe.
My producer invited John Richards of the Apostrophe Protection Society to come and talk to us.
Imagine my teenage wrath when, time after time, my homework was returned with this well-meant floating apostrophe struck out.
Carey gave just one paragraph to the apostrophe, because there was so little to say about it.
If I did not believe that everyone is capable of understanding where an apostrophe goes, I would not be writing this book.
Such a list of legitimate apostrophe jobs certainly brings home to us the imbalance of responsibility that exists in the world of punctuation.
Yet by contrast to the versatile apostrophe, they are stolid little chaps, to say the least.
Good Queen Bess and happened to notice a misplaced apostrophe in a royal decree.
In the meantime, what can be done by those of us sickened by the state of apostrophe abuse?
It is no fault of the apostrophe that some of our words need so much help identifying themselves.
Indeed, it is to the credit of the apostrophe that it can manage the task.
Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point, and the pun is very much intended.
The next day after the abolition of the apostrophe, imagine the scene.
Abolish the apostrophe and it will be necessary, before the hour is up, to reinvent it.
Using the apostrophe correctly is a mere negative proof: it tells the world you are not a thicko.
You had to type a full stop, then back-space and type an apostrophe on top of it.