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Meanings of inverted comma in English

Portuguese
aspas
Catalan
cometes

A punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else.

        aspas
        Synonyms
        Examples for "quote"
        Examples for "quote"
        1
        Truthiness: People have certainly talked about that Etch-a-Sketch quote quite a bit.
        The Guardian
        2
        Here's the quote: Analysts need not come solely from the intelligence community.
        Wired
        3
        Labour has sent a fairly anodyne quote about the French nuclear deal.
        The Guardian
        4
        Best quote: I am strongly opposed to all forms of proportional representation.
        The Guardian
        5
        Cameron asks Miliband to ask the question again, including the complete quote.
        The Guardian
        1
        Or does it just not understand what a quotation mark is for?
        The Irish Times
        2
        Page 374 - missing single quotation mark added after this is terrible.
        Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
        3
        Page 204 - missing quotation mark added after me and my God.
        Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
        4
        Page 450 - missing quotation mark added before is one of antiquity
        Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.
        5
        Page 258 - missing quotation mark added before we saw a drum
        Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
        Translations for inverted comma
        Portuguese
        aspasaspa
        Catalan
        cometes