Apostrophe

Apostrophe is a term in prosody, one of the four parts of Grammar, for the punctuation mark ('). It usually denotes either the possessive case of a noun, or the elision of one or more letters of a word: as, "The girl's regard to her parents' advice"; 'gan, lov'd, e'en, thro' for began, loved, even, through respectively. In example, such as the summer of ’63, certain number is mission before 63. It is sometimes used in pluralizing a mere letter or sign, as, Two a's, three 6's etc.

In rhetoric, an exclamatory passage in a speech or poem is put under apostrophe, especially when it is addressed to a person, typically one who is dead or absent, or a something personified.

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Apothecaries' measure, Apothecary, Apothegm, Apothem, Apotheosis, Apotropaic