Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apostrophe

2 senses of apostrophe

Sense 1
apostrophe -- (address to an absent or imaginary person)
       => rhetorical device -- (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))

Sense 2
apostrophe -- (the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word)
       => punctuation, punctuation mark -- (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)