1. Address to an absent or imaginary person 
2. The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

Derived forms: apostrophes

See also: apostrophic, apostrophize

Type of: punctuation, punctuation mark, rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Apostrophe

• omphalos
• omphaloskepsis
• Omphalotus
• Omphalotus illudens
• omphalus
• Omsk
• on
• on a higher floor
• on a lower floor
• on a regular basis
• on a roll
• on air
• on all fours
• on an individual basis
• on an irregular basis
• on and off
• on approval
• on average
• on base
• on board
• on call
• on camera
• on cloud nine
• on demand
• on earth