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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A punctuation symbol (?) written at the end of a sentence or phrase to indicate a direct question. Also called interrogation point.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The punctuation mark “?”, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
  2. n. idiomatic doubt or uncertainty

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to indicate a question

Examples

  • “Ellipses after a question mark are always strategically placed.”

    Simon & Schuster: Mortified

  • “In the few cases where a word remains illegible, it is indicated by a question mark within square brackets.”

    Simon & Schuster: Under The Moon

  • “With the battalion and battery chiefs, the great question mark of the campaign was not whether Pendleton went or remained, but whether the horses could survive hard work, poor shoeing, and half-feed.”

    Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

  • “Thanet filed away a question mark over Vintage's marriage, for further investigation later if necessary.”

    No Laughing Matter

  • “And there was a very big question mark in Miss De Voe's voice.”

    The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him

  • “Even Henry Norbert bore a question mark above his head, as the lawyer knew more than anyone else about Russell's business, whereabouts, and life in general.”

    Locked Rooms

  • “But his immoderate taste for the high life which he shared with General Howe curled a question mark over his capacities, and even in a farewell and affectionate letter to his wife before he sailed for Boston in 1775, he felt obliged, as a self-confessed libertine, to couple his declarations of everlasting love with apologies for “the levities, the inattentions, and dissipations of my common course of life.””

    Simon & Schuster: Angel in the Whirlwind

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. interrogation point
  1. eroteme

hypernyms (2)

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  1. punctuation mark
  1. punctuation

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  1. interrogation
  2. interrobang
  1. interrogation point
  2. query
  1. accentuate
  2. eroteme
  1. interrogation-point
  2. question mark
  1. and
  2. criminal

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  1. punctuation
  1. ueioa

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  • deinonychus Also a butterfly, Polygonia interrogationis. Jun 2, 2012

  • bilby "That's supposed to be a fact, that the question mark is originally from an Egyptian hieroglyph that signified a cat walking away. You know, it's the tail. And that symbol meant — well, whatever it is when they're ignoring you."
    - Christopher Walken in Scott Raab, Christopher Walken: What I've Learned, esquire.com, 14 May 2009. May 18, 2009

  • cricket ?
    Feb 26, 2008

  • gangerh (fd) Counterfeit German coin
    (Thanks Chris Doyle) Jan 24, 2008

  • skipvia Homage to Rudy Martinez. Oct 29, 2007

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