Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of guillemet.
Examples
“The software that makes the post to your comment section does not seem to like guillemets (that is, = French quotation marks).”
“Finally, Finnish and Swedish surround quotations with two guillemets that both point to the right.”
“Chinese typographers have adopted pointing-out guillemets to denote the title of a book.”
“On a typewriter, of course, they're the same (and I'll have much more to say about the typewriter's effect on punctuation this week). guillemets: « »”
“Norwegian uses guillemets for Level 1 quotes: « … » and upper single quotes for Level 2: ‘…’”
“The software that makes the post to your comment section does not seem to like guillemets that is, = French quotation marks.”
“He is knwon for being ideologically opportunistic more than a stiff left wing ideologue “il a les guillemets faciles”, but I figure at least some policies he advocates would make Obama look like a fascist in comparison.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?” Update:
“Notes d'une conférence que je viens de donner en Serbie sur ce qu'est le travail d'une "consultante en blogs" notez les guillemets.”
“Pour ce qui est de la citation de Bruno… n'oublions pas que les journalistes retravaillent allégrement le texte qui se retrouve entre guillemets et mis dans la bouche de quelqu'un.”
“Boldface is shown by «guillemets», italics by _lines_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘guillemets’.
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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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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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bloodworm's list
These are words that I enjoy because they are unique, rare, long, or just cool.
circumlocution, hysteresis, schadenfreude, quixotic, loquacious, ennui, sesquipedalian, defenestrate, obfuscate, syzygy, ubiquitous, superfluous and 231 more...
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words about words
aposiopesis, hendiadys, litotes, meiosis, auxesis, paradiastole, anaphora, epistrophe, catachresis, malapropism, interrobang, palimpsest and 8 more...
Tweets
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reesetee It does, doesn't it? Precisely why I chose the photo. ;-) Dec 31, 2007
rolig I don't know, reesetee, that mouth certainly resembles a guillemet! Dec 29, 2007
reesetee Not to be confused with guillemots. ;-) Dec 29, 2007
colleen « » Dec 26, 2007