ampersandnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈæm.pə.sænd/us/ˈæm.pɚ.sænd/the sign &, used for "and"
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Punctuation
- apostrophe
- asterisk
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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Examples from literature
- In the passage above quoted I have restored the ampersands and capitals of Boswell's manuscript.