punctuationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌpʌŋk.tʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpʌŋk.tʃuˈeɪ.ʃən/B1 (the use of) special symbols that you add to writing to separate phrases and sentences to show that something is a question, etc.:
His letter was completely without punctuation.
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- You'll be marked down for poor spelling and punctuation.
- He had written the letter in appalling handwriting with almost no punctuation.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Punctuation
- ampersand
- asterisk
- capitalize
- caron
- cedilla
- dash
- ditto
- ellipsis
- grave (accent)
- guillemet
- hyphen
- hyphenate
- lower case
- parentheses
- period
- punctuation mark
- question mark
- quotation marks
- tilde
- upper case
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