Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Either of a pair of quotation marks used to denote a quotation in writing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: quote, inverted comma
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark
Narrower terms: single quote, double quotes, scare quote
History
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