ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Colon-point

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Colon-point is a noun meaning (typography, obsolete) Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.

Meaning

(typography, obsolete) Synonym of colon ⟨:⟩.

Example Sentences

Whoever introduced the several points, it seems that a full-point, a point called come, answering to our colon-point, a point called virgil answering to our comma-point, the parenthesis-points and interrogative-point, were used at the close of the fourteenth, or beginning of the fifteenth century.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comma-point, colon, come, full-point, scratch comma, tricolon.

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