Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol (¶).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character ¶, used to mark the beginning of a new paragraph: same as paragraph, 4.
Wiktionary
- n. The paragraph mark ¶.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a paragraph mark, ¶.
Etymologies
- Alteration of Middle English pilcraft, pilcrow, paragraph, alteration (perhaps influenced by Middle English craft, skill, work, piece of work) of Old French paragrafe, pelagraphe, paragraph; see paragraph.
Examples
“Who knew, for example, that the backward P printer's mark that denotes a paragraph break is called a pilcrow or that the only letters formed in a clockwise direction are m, n, h, k, b, p and r?”
“nyokki: what i did is google the word pilcrow and i saw the symbol and copied it instead of going in character map. hope it makes it easier for you”
“There used to be a clunky paragraph sign known as a pilcrow ; initially it was a C with a slash drawn through it.”
“There is also a deep look at the @ symbol's new-found stardom, the octothorpe enjoying a new lease of life renamed as the "hashtag" in Twitter parlance, and the secretive pilcrow.”
“I'll start with remarks on little known formal names for some punctuation marks. pilcrow: ¶”
“MS Word wants to make anything that looks like a quote mark with a space, tab, or pilcrow in front of it into some kind of open-quote mark.”
“Other terms do it for me too: recently I was reminded by India that the symbol for a paragraph is called a pilcrow.”
“The third type has a pilcrow ¶ but no paragraph break.”
“In this e-text, the second type of paragraph is marked with a pilcrow ¶.”
“In the printed book, some line numbers were shifted to avoid collision with the pilcrow symbol at the beginning of each seven-line stanza.”
Lists
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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 66 more...
colleen ¶ Dec 26, 2007
serenete So that's what it's called! :) Sep 19, 2007
reesetee Also called the paragraph sign or the alinea. A typographical character commonly used to denote individual paragraphs, it resembles a backward P. Sep 14, 2007