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Word: Colon
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting a section of a complex sentence, or a pause before it): via Latin from Greek kōlon ‘limb, clause’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈkəʊlən
Dialects: British English
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈkəʊlɒn
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a punctuation mark (:) used to precede a list of items, a quotation, or an expansion or explanation.
Short Definition:punctuation mark (:) used to precede list of items
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