Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The symbol (@) for the word at.
Wiktionary
- n. the symbol @
Examples
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘at sign’.
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 72 more...
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
apostrophe, colon, brackets, comma, dash, ellipsis, exclamation point, question mark, full-stop, period, parentheses, guillemet and 60 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for at sign.
mollusque Wonderful news about Italian for @, Bilby! See _@', the ascii snail. Dec 2, 2007
bilby It Italian it's called chiocciola or schiocciola meaning snail, either due to the shape or abysmal internet speeds in that country. Dec 2, 2007
rolig This mark has been revitalized, of course, by IT, so that now it is one of the most essential keys on the keyboard. Despite its rather utilitarian functions in commerce and communications, it is visually rather elegant: @ @ @ @. I was surprised to learn that in Slovene, this mark is named "afna", which is a borrowing from German (Affe) and means originally "monkey". I guess the Slovenes think @ looks like a monkey. Dec 2, 2007