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)